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Security Center:Assets overview

Last Updated:Feb 27, 2026

The Overview tab provides a consolidated view of your asset security posture, including server counts, operating system distribution, agent installation rates, plug-in status, and risk summaries across cloud assets. Use this page to identify and address security gaps early.

Supported editions

This feature is available in all Security Center editions, including the free edition.

Access the Overview tab

  1. Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. Supported regions: Chinese Mainland and Outside Chinese Mainland.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Assets > Overview.

Asset distribution status

The Asset Distribution Status section displays the total number of servers within the current Alibaba Cloud account and a breakdown by status:

  • At-risk Servers

  • Abnormally Offline Servers

  • Servers with Protection Paused

  • Shutdown Servers

  • No-risk Servers

You can switch between the By Risk and By Protection Level and Edition tabs to view different breakdowns.

Click the number under each statistic to view detailed server information.

If you use the Basic or Value-added edition, the breakdown of servers protected by different Security Center editions is not displayed.

AI Asset

Displays the total number of AI assets within the current Alibaba Cloud account, categorized by type, along with at-risk AI assets.

Click the number under the Assets column in the At-risk AI Assets section to go to the corresponding console page (such as the Cloud Product page) to view the risks.

Agent status

The Agent section shows how broadly the Security Center agent is deployed across your servers and whether deployed agents are online. You must install the Security Center agent on a server before Security Center can protect the server.

If you use the Basic or Value-added edition of Security Center, this section does not appear.

The following metrics are displayed in different time ranges:

MetricDescription
Agent Installation RateNumber of servers with agent installed / Total number of servers
Online RateNumber of servers with agent online / Number of servers with agent installed
Agent InstalledNumber of servers with the agent installed
Agent Not InstalledNumber of servers without the agent

Data recorded at 24:00 each day is used to calculate the installation rate and online rate for that day.

Available actions:

  • Click Install Now to install the Security Center agent on unprotected assets.

  • Click Scan Now to go to the Agentless Detection page to create a scan task.

Asset distribution

The Asset Distribution section displays a pie chart of server distribution by provider.

Client component status

The Client Component Status section tracks the installation and enablement state of the following plug-ins:

Plug-inPurpose
AliHipsWebshell Prevention, Malicious Host Behavior Prevention, and anti-ransomware (Bait Capture)
AliNetMalicious Network Behavior Prevention
Agent ProtectionAgent self-protection (AliSecGuard)

Each plug-in shows the following status cards: Policy Disabled, Plug-in Online, Plug-in Offline, and Installation Failed. You can view statistics on policies not enabled, online and offline plug-ins, and installation failures.

Available actions:

  • Click Enable on the Policy Disabled card to go to System Configuration > Feature Settings and enable the corresponding policy.

  • Click the statistics in the Policy Disabled, Plug-in Online, Plug-in Offline, and Installation Failed sections to go to the Assets > Host page to view details.

  • In the upper-right corner of this section, click Failure Details to view detailed information about plug-in installation failures.

Risk and fingerprint insights

Top 5 at-risk services

The Top 5 At-risk Services section displays the top 5 cloud services with the highest detected risks, along with the number of instances at risk for each service.

Click Details to go to the Assets > Cloud Product page to view information about cloud services.

Distribution by operating system

The Distribution by Operating System section displays the distribution of servers by operating system.

Click different system tabs to view details.

Top 5 Asset Fingerprints

Displays the top five entries for each of the following categories:

  • Open server ports

  • Software

  • Processes

  • Accounts

  • Middleware

Click Details to go to the Host page to view the details of fingerprints.

The Asset Fingerprints feature is supported by the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Security Center. To use this feature, you must purchase or upgrade your Security Center to the Enterprise or Ultimate edition.