The notification feature of Certificate Management Service allows you to customize SSL certificate reminder policies to meet personalized notification needs.
Background
The notification service primarily configures flexible expiration reminder policies for issued SSL certificates, while providing alerts for key certificate lifecycle events such as certificate download and revocation. In addition, the service supports configuring whether to receive the latest Certificate Management Service product updates and announcements, as well as information about intermediate and root certificate changes, providing precise and personalized services for your business operations.
The following table compares the default and custom notification policies.
Scenario | Default notification (expiration reminder only) | Custom notification (expiration reminder and core operation reminder) |
Contacts | 1 | Up to 10 |
Delivery channels | Email, internal message | Email, internal message, SMS, chatbot |
Delivery window | All day | All day, or 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM |
Multi-dimensional business reminder | Expiration reminder only |
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Expiration reminder lead time | 15 days before expiration, not customizable |
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Expiration reminder frequency | Expiration reminder only, sent once 30 days before expiration, not customizable |
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Prerequisites
You have obtained an issued certificate from the Certificate Management Service console. For more information, see Purchase a commercial certificate and Submit a certificate application.
If your certificate type is an uploaded certificate or a personal test certificate, you must purchase a notification quota first. For more information, see Purchase a notification quota.
Procedure
Log in to the Certificate Management Service console.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose .
On the SSL Certificates tab, find the certificate for which you want to configure notifications, and click Edit in the Actions column.
To configure notifications for multiple certificates at once, select the certificates and click Batch Edit below the list.
In the Edit Notification panel, turn on notifications, configure the following parameters, and click OK.
Parameter
Description
Alert Contact
Set or add contacts for certificate notifications. Up to 10 contacts are supported.
Notification Method
Select a message delivery method. Email, SMS, internal message, DingTalk, WeCom, and Feishu are supported.
To receive messages through DingTalk, WeCom, or Feishu, add the corresponding channel when creating a contact on the contact management page. For more information, see Manage contacts.
Notification Content
Select the certificate business reminders, alerts, and product change notifications to receive.
Expiration Notification Frequency
Select the notification frequency.
Expiration Deadline Notification
Select the time range for certificate expiration reminders.