Audit Alerts

Aruba Central allows administrators to enable alerts for configuration changes at group level. The Config Change Detected alert is under Audit tab. Configuration change alerts are intended for administrators handling large distributed network. Alerts are triggered under the following scenarios:

• Create New Template
• Update Existing Template
• Variable Upload
  • Device Level: Sends an alert with additional parameters such as serial number and MACMedia Access Control. A MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on a network. address of the device.
  • Group Level: Sends an alert with respective group name.
  • Configuration restore
• Configuration change at Device Level
• Configuration change at Group Level

The alert content includes the following information:

• Group Name
• Device Type
• User ID
• Config Change
• Device Serial number and MAC Address

The following table describes the behavior of the alert and alert content depending on the user action:

Table 1: Config Alert Behavior

User Action	Group Name	Device Type	User ID	Config Change	Device Serial/ MAC
Created a template	Template group name	IAP/ Switch. Gateway	User ID	No Content	NO
Updated existing template	Template group name	IAP/ Switch/ Gateway	User ID	Changed content is displayed	NO
Uploaded variable at device level	Group name to which the device belongs	IAP/ Switch/ Gateway	User ID	No Content	YES
Uploaded variable at group level	Template group name	IAP/ Switch/ Gateway	User ID	No Content	NO
Made configuration at the device level	Group name to which the device belongs	IAP/ Switch/ Gateway	User ID	Changed content is displayed	YES
Made configuration change at the group level	UI group name	IAP/ Switch/ Gateway	User ID	Changed content is displayed	NO