How to Change the Hyperlink Destination for Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary Bulletins

Summary: Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary Bulletins hyperlink destination can be changed by following these steps.

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Instructions

Affected Products:

  • Dell Security Management Server
  • Dell Security Management Server Virtual
  • Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition
  • Dell Data Protection | Virtual Edition

Affected Versions:

  • v9.2 and Later

As an administrator, you may find that the links on the Advanced Threat Protection Event Summaries do not reference a working location in your environment. By default, these links use the hostname of the server.

Advanced Threat Protection Even Summary
Figure 1: (English Only) Advanced Threat Protection Even Summary

To change the link in the summaries:

  1. Open application.properties in X:\Program Files\Dell\Enterprise Edition\Security Server\conf where X is the drive letter for the Dell Security Management Server install.

application.properties
Figure 2: (English Only) application.properties

  1. Edit the server.host variable to match the location for the link.
  2. Then, save and close the file.

Edit the server.host variable
Figure 3: (English Only) Edit the server.host variable

  1. Restart the security server service.

Restart Dell Security Server
Figure 4: (English Only) Restart Dell Security Server

The next summary should reflect the new link:

Note: This does not change any Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary that is created before the Security Server service is restarted.

Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary
Figure 5: (English Only) Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary

Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary
Figure 6: (English Only) Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary

To change the link in the summaries:

  1. Open the Dell Security Management Server Virtual console.
  2. Select Launch Shell.

Launch Shell
Figure 7: (English Only) Launch Shell

  1. Switch user to dellsupport (ddpsupport in versions before v9.11) using the su command.
  2. Open application.properties in /opt/dell/server/security-server/conf/

Switch users and open application.properties
Figure 8: (English Only) Switch users and open application.properties

appliaction.properties
Figure 9: (English Only) appliaction.properties

  1. Edit the server.host variable to match the location for the link. Then, save and close the file.

Edit the server.host variable
Figure 10: (English Only) Edit the server.host variable

  1. Exit back to the Administration Console and select Stop Application within the Basic Configuration menu.

Stop Application
Figure 11: (English Only) Stop Application

Applications stopped
Figure 12: (English Only) Applications stopped

  1. Once all services have stopped, press the Esc key to return to the Basic Configuration menu and select Start Application.

Start Applications
Figure 13: (English Only) Start Applications

The next summary should reflect the new link:

Note: This does not change any Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary that is created before the Security Server service is restarted.

Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary
Figure 14: (English Only) Advanced Threat Protection Event Summary

To contact support, reference Dell Data Security International Support Phone Numbers.
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Affected Products

Dell Encryption
Article Properties
Article Number: 000124099
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 06 May 2024
Version:  8
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