Manage mobile phone numbers for resource accounts - Resource Management

A mobile phone number is used to verify the identity of a member and receive important change notifications. For example, a mobile phone number can be used to receive notifications about password resetting, instance or cluster release, fee changes, switching of a cloud account to a resource account, and switching of a resource account to a cloud account. This topic describes how to bind a mobile phone number to a resource account in a resource directory and how to change the mobile phone number.

Prerequisites

A RAM user or RAM role is created within the management account of your resource directory, and the AliyunResourceDirectoryFullAccess policy is attached to the RAM user or RAM role. To ensure that the system can record the operators of management operations, you must use such a RAM user or RAM role to perform operations described in this topic.

Limits

You cannot bind a mobile phone number to a cloud account in the Resource Management console.
To bind a mobile phone number to a cloud account, log on to the Account Center console as the root user of the cloud account.
A maximum of 100 verification codes can be sent per day.

Bind a mobile phone number

Log on to the Resource Management console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Resource Directory > Overview.
Click the Organization or Members tab.
Find the resource account to which you want to bind a mobile phone number and click Bind Mobile Phone Number in the Actions column.
In the Bind Mobile Phone Number dialog box, enter a mobile phone number in the Mobile phone number field, click Get verification code to obtain a verification code, and then enter the code in the Verification code field.
Click OK.

Change a mobile phone number

You cannot directly change the mobile phone number bound to a resource account. To change the mobile phone number, you need to switch the resource account to a cloud account and log on to the Account Center console as the root user of the cloud account.

In the Resource Management console, switch the resource account to a cloud account.
1. Log on to the Resource Management console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Resource Directory > Overview.
3. Click the Organization or Members tab.
4. Find the resource account that you want to switch and click Switch to Cloud Account in the Actions column.
5. In the Switch to Cloud Account dialog box, read the risk warning, select the risk warning check box, and then click OK.
Important
You need to use the password retrieval feature to reset the password of the root user and use the root user to log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console. If you have specified a password for the root user, you can directly use the password. After the root user is enabled, the security risks of the cloud account increase. Keep the username and password of the root user secure.
Log on to the Account Center console as the root user of the cloud account and change the mobile phone number bound to the cloud account.
For more information, see Change the mobile number bound to your Alibaba Cloud account.

References

If you only want to receive notifications, you do not need to bind mobile phone numbers to members. You need to only configure contacts for members. For information about how to configure contacts for members, see Manage contacts for a member.