HP Diagnostics Alert: Too many authentication failures

  • KM01075575
  • 31-Jul-2014
  • 01-Aug-2014

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Summary

Change the alert trigger conditions for "too many authentication failures" alert from the commanding server.

Question

How to change the trigger conditions for "too many authentication failures" alert?

Answer

By default this alert trigger condition is set to more than 1000 hits in 86400s (24 hours).

This setting can be adjusted by adding the following parameters to the commanding server /etc/webserver.poperties:

#Time period

authentication.throttle.notifier.timeperiod=

 

# Amount of attempts during that time
authentication.throttle.notifier.hits=