Viewing Alarm Details

Role Availability Read-Only Investigator Analyst Manager

The alarm Alarms provide notification of an event or sequence of events that require attention or investigation. details page provides in-depth information on an alarm, what caused it, and how to resolve the situation.

To view the details of an alarm

  1. Go to Activity > Alarms.
  2. Click the alarm to display a summary view, and then click the alarm name to open the full details of the alarm.

    Details of an alarm

    3. Click the icon to bookmark an item for quick access.

    Note: You can view your bookmarked items by going to the secondary menu and clicking the icon. This will display all of your bookmarked items and provide direct links to each of them.

    Not all alarms found during monitoring Process of collecting all device status and event information and processing normalized events for evidence of vulnerabilities, possible attacks, and other malicious activity. are necessary in managing your environment because they do not pose a security threat. It is common for low priority alarms to create noise, which can make it difficult to monitor alarms that require more attention. You can identify these alarms and suppress them by using a rule.

    The Alarms Details Page includes alarm management functions that are supported for your assigned user role Tasks and responsibilities based on job description and position within an organization. A user's role is often used to define access to functionality and privileges to perform specific tasks and operations.:

    The alarm details include the main fields that identify an alarm. You can edit or add values into these fields:

    • Status: This field indicates the status for the alarm: open, in review, or closed. You can click the icon to edit the field and apply a status. See Alarm Status for more information.
    • Labels: This field indicates if the alarm has been classified by using a label. You can click the icon to manage the labels of the alarm. See Labeling the Alarms for more information.
    • Investigations: This field indicates if the alarm has been associated to an investigation. You can click the icon to edit the field and enter the title or the number that identifies each investigation. See Adding an Alarm to an Investigation for more information.
    • Notes: This field allows you to enter notes regarding this alarm. You can click the icon to enter text into this field.
    • HTTP Hostname: If the alarm includes this field, you can search for events by using it. See Searching Events from the Details of an Alarm for more information.
    • DNS RR Name: If the alarm includes this field, you can search for events by using it. See Searching Events from the Details of an Alarm for more information.

    Below the alarm details you can see the source, the destination, the associated alarm if it exists, the associated events Any traffic or data exchange detected by AT&T Cybersecurity products through a sensor or external devices such as a firewall., a description, and, in the case of an alarm with a high priority, a recommendation to fix the problem.

    Your environment can have sources and destinations included in the inventory and those not included in the inventory. Assets included in the inventory display their names in blue, and assets not included in the inventory display their names in gray.

    The icon located next to the source and destination fields allows you to access these options:

    • Search Pivot: Identify alarms triggered in the last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or 90 days. You can also configure your own period of time by clicking the Custom Range option. When you click the icon, a calendar opens. You can choose the first and last day to delimit your search by clicking the days on the calendar or entering the days directly. Then select the hours, minutes, and seconds by clicking the specific box. Finally, select AM or PM.

    • Find Source or Destination in Events: Use this link to search events having the same source or destination as the alarm.

    • Find Source & Destination in Events: Use this link to search events having the same source and destination as the alarm.

    The icon located next to the asset enables you to access the following options. Your access to these options may vary based on your user role. See Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in USM Anywhere for more information:

    • Add to current filter: Use this option to add the asset name as a search filter. See Searching Alarms for more information.
    • Find in events: Use this option to execute a search of the asset name in the Events page. See Events List View for more information.
    • Look up in OTX: This option searches the IP address of the source asset in the Open Threat Exchange page. See Using OTX in USM Anywhere for more information.
    • Add asset to system: Use this option to create the asset in the system, see Adding Assets for more information.

    Note: The value in the FQDN field comes from the event itself (raw log). This field can have a real FQDN, an IP address, or be empty.

    The icon located next to the asset enables you to access the following options. Your access to these options may vary based on your user role. See Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in USM Anywhere for more information:

  3. Click the link of an associated event to open its details page.

    The Associated Events list displays all events associated with the alarm.

  4. In the upper right corner, click Previous and Next to navigate between items.
  5. Click the icon to close the dialog box.

    6. Note: See the Searching Events from the Details of an Alarm page for more information about the options in the HTTP Hostname, DNS RR Name, Source, and Destination fields.