:Change the protection mode from full protection to partial protection

Precautions

Before you change the protection mode from full protection to partial protection, take note of the following items:

• You cannot roll back the change operation.

• The quota for protected servers that you purchase in the partial protection mode takes effect only after you bind the quota to the required servers.

Prerequisites

The Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition of Security Center is purchased before May 30, 2024 (UTC+8). For more information, see Purchase Security Center.

Procedure

1. Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. You can select China or Outside China. On the Overview page, click Upgrade Now.

2. On the Upgrade Now page, click Partial Protection Mode.

   • If the number of assets within your Alibaba Cloud account is less than the quota that you purchased and you use the full protection mode, you can change Security Center specifications during renewal. To reduce the quota for protected servers or server cores during renewal, click Upgrade/Downgrade Renewal In the Renewal panel, reduce the value of the Protected Servers or Cores parameter and complete the payment.

     Note

     After you renew Security Center by changing the specifications, you can click Partial Protection Mode to enable partial protection.

   • If the number of assets within your account is greater than or equal to the quota that you purchased, Security Center supports only the partial protection mode.

3. In the Change Protection Mode panel, read and select I understand the risks, and then click OK.

4. Select the servers to which you want to bind quotas and click OK.

   If you want to enable automatic binding of quotas, select Automatically Add New Servers to Security Center.

   Important

   • You cannot unbind a quota from a server within 30 days after you bind the quota to the server.

   • After an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance is released, Security Center automatically unbinds the consumed quota from the ECS instance and releases the quota. You can bind the quota to another server.

   After the binding operation, a message indicating that the binding is successful appears in the Security Center console.

5. Click Close to go back to the Security Center console.

   You can perform other configurations in the Security Center console. For more information about common configurations, see Configure common features (simplified).

Verification

Return to and refresh the Overview page. If the Manage button is displayed in the Remaining Quota section, the protection mode of Security Center is changed to partial protection.

References

• For more information about how to bind a quota to or unbind a quota from a server, see Manage quotas.

• If the purchased quotas cannot meet your business requirements, you can upgrade or downgrade Security Center specifications to reduce or increase quotas. For more information, see Upgrade and downgrade Security Center.

• If you want to reduce or increase quotas in the next billing cycle, you can change the Security Center specifications based on your business requirements during renewal. For more information, see Renew the subscription to Security Center.