Using Logs and Reports : Configuring alert email settings
 
Configuring alert email settings
Alerts are emails sent to specified addresses when specified events are triggered.
You can specify whether event severity or event category is the basis for your alerts configuration.
Before you begin:
• You must have Read-Write permission for Log & Report settings.
To configure alert email settings:
1. Go to Log & Report > Log Configuration > Alert Mail.
2. Complete the configuration as described in Table 60.
3. Save the configuration.
Figure 94: Alert mail configuration page
 
Table 60: Alert mail configuration guidelines
Settings
Guidelines
SMTP Server
IP address or FQDN of an SMTP server (such as FortiMail) or email server that the appliance can connect to in order to send alerts and/or generated reports.
SMTP Port
Listening port number of the server. Usually, SMTP is 25.
Email from
Sender email address used in alert email.
Email to
Up to three recipient email addresses, one per field.
Tip: To temporarily disable alert emails, delete all recipients. This allows you to preserve the other SMTP settings in case you want to enable alert emails in the future.
Authentication
Username
Username for authentication to the SMTP server.
Password
Password for authentication to the SMTP server.
Alert email setting
Interval time
If identical alerts are occurring continuously, select the interval between each email that will be sent while the event continues.
Categories or severities
Select either alerts based on categories or alerts based on event severity.