Configuration tab
This tab contains all the necessary parameters for configuring e-mail alerts.
Enable e-mail notifications |
This option enables the configuration of alerts. If it is disabled, none of the configuration items will be accessible as the firewall will not send ay e-mails. This option is disabled by default.
The e-mail notification feature requires a mail server that can receive e-mails from the firewall. |
SMTP Server
Server | This field determines the host (SMTP server) to which the firewall will send e-mails, by selecting it from the object database. This field is empty by default. |
Port | Port on the SMTP server to which e-mails will be sent. A list allows selecting an object, whose default value will be “SMTP”. |
E-mail address | Specifies the e-mail address of the sender and makes it possible to ensure compatibility with external SMTP services such as Microsoft Office 365. The sender's e-mail address suggested by default starts as follows: '<firewall_name>@'. |
Authentication |
A login and password can now be defined for sending e-mails via the firewall. This checkbox allows you to enable the authentication of the firewalls when sending e-mail alerts. |
ID | This entry is disabled if the Authentication option has not been selected. This field allows entering the SMTP username (this entry has to be provided if authentication has been enabled). |
Password | This entry is disabled if the Authentication option has not been selected. This field allows entering the SMTP username (this entry has to be provided if authentication has been enabled). |
Testing the SMTP configuration | This button makes it possible to send a test e-mail to check the firewall's SMTP configuration. After having clicked on Test the SMTP configuration, enter the e-mail address of the recipient for the test e-mail, then click on Send. |
E-mail sending frequency (in minutes)
Sending frequency |
This option allows you to specify the frequency with which reports will be sent. A report contains all the alarms detected from the previous report. As such, e-mails will be received during certain time slots and not each time an alarm is raised. The default value is 15. EXAMPLE
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Intrusion prevention alarms
Here, you may select a group to notify of intrusion prevention alarms. The list of alarms will be sent in the body of the e-mail to the specified group, and at the frequency defined in the Sending frequency field.
Do not send any e-mails | No e-mails regarding alarms will be sent to a specific recipient. This option is selected by default, and used to enable e-mail notifications in order to approve certificate requests, for example, without necessarily generating e-mails for alarms. |
Send according to alarm and event settings | Only intrusion prevention and system event alarms for which the Send an e-mail checkbox has been selected will activate the sending of an e-mail. |
Send only major alarms | If this option is selected, the group selected in the next field will receive major alarms, which will act as a configured e-mail notification (Applications and Protections module / Advanced column). |
Message recipient | Selection of the group that will receive major intrusion prevention alarms. |
Send major and minor alarms | If this option is selected, the group selected in the next field will receive major and minor intrusion prevention alarms, which will act as a configured e-mail notification (Applications and Protections module / Advanced column). |
Message recipient | Selection of the group that will receive intrusion prevention alarms. |
System events
Here, you may select a group to notify of system events. The list of events will be sent in the body of the e-mail to the specified group, and at the frequency defined in the Sending frequency field.
Do not send any e-mails | No e-mails regarding system events will be sent to a specific recipient. This option is selected by default, and used to enable e-mail notifications in order to approve certificate requests, for example, without necessarily generating e-mails for system events. |
Send only major alarms | If this option is selected, the group selected in the next field will receive major system events, which will act as a configured e-mail notification (Applications and Protections module / Advanced column). |
Message recipient | Selection of the group that will receive major system events. |
Send major and minor alarms | If this option is selected, the group selected in the next field will receive major and minor system events, which will act as a configured e-mail notification (Applications and Protections module / Advanced column). |
Message recipient | Selection of the group that will receive major system events. |
NOTE
The status of system events can be viewed in the Notifications > System events module.