Security Center provides the asset fingerprints feature that periodically collects and records information about the ports, software, processes, accounts, scheduled tasks, and middleware on your servers. This feature allows you to monitor the running status of your assets and trace the sources of security events. You can log on to the Security Center console to view fingerprint information on the Overview tab and the tabs of a specific asset fingerprint. This topic provides an overview of the asset fingerprints feature, including relevant characteristics and the data that the feature collects.
Prerequisites
The asset fingerprints feature is supported only by the Enterprise edition. To use this feature, you must upgrade the Basic, Basic Anti-Virus, or Advanced edition of Security Center to the Enterprise edition. For more information about how to upgrade an edition of Security Center, see Upgrade and downgrade Security Center.
Background information
- The asset fingerprints feature can collect, record, and analyze the following fingerprint information: listened ports, software assets, running progresses, account assets, paths of scheduled tasks, and middleware. The middleware refers to system components that can run independently, such as MySQL databases.
- You can click Settings on the Asset Fingerprints page to set the time interval at which the preceding fingerprint information is collected.
- You can go to the Assets page to manually run a task that collects fingerprint information about a single asset.
Introduction to the Overview tab of the Asset Fingerprints page
You can log on to the Security Center console and choose to open the Asset Fingerprints page. On the Overview tab, you can view fingerprint information in the following sections: Top 5 Open Ports, Top 5 Software, Top 5 Processes, Top 5 With The Same Account, Middleware TOP5, and Latest Account.

You can click Details in each section to go to the relevant tab that displays more fingerprint details. For more information, see View asset fingerprints data.
Asset fingerprints
Asset fingerprint | Description | Application scenario |
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Ports | Listened ports. This feature periodically collects information about the listened
ports. The information includes the following items:
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Software | Software assets. This feature periodically collects information about the software
that is installed on your servers. The information includes the following items:
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Processes | Running processes. This feature periodically collects information about the processes
that are running on your servers. The information includes the following items:
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Accounts | Account assets. This feature periodically collects information about the accounts
of your servers. The information includes the following items:
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Scheduled tasks | This feature periodically collects information about the paths of scheduled tasks
that are run on your servers. The information includes the following items:
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Middleware | This feature periodically collects information about the middleware of your servers.
The middleware refers to system components that can run independently, such as MySQL
databases and Docker. Docker is a container component. The information includes the
following items:
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