Alert email
As the FortiRecorder system administrator, you can receive alert email whenever an important system event occurs, such as the hard disk being full and so on. Before you configure alert email, you must configure the mail server settings so that FortiRecorder can send out email. For details see
“Configuring FortiRecorder to send notification email”.
You can configure up to 10 alert email addresses.
To configure alert email settings
1. Go to Logs and Alerts > Alert Email > Configuration.
2. Click New.
3. Type your email address, such as admin@example.com.
This setting is the recipient only for appliance-related notifications, such as the hard disk being full. It does
not configure the recipient of camera-related notifications, such as motion detection. For this kind of video-related notifications, see
“Notifications”.
4. Click Create.
5. Go to Logs and Alerts > Alert Email > Categories. Mark the check boxes of all appliance events that you want to trigger an alert email to be sent, such as:
Setting name | Description |
Critical events | Enable to notify when serious system events occur such as daemon crashes. See also “Resource issues”. |
Disk is full | Enable to notify when the disk partition that stores log data is full. See also “Data storage issues”. |
Camera device | Enable to notify when a defined camera configuration has been enabled or disabled, or if there are problems with the camera. (The FortiRecorder NVR will not control or record video from a camera that is not enabled in its list of known, configured devices. See “Camera settings”.) |
Camera communications | Enable to notify when there has been a network error during communications between the NVR and camera. See also “Connectivity issues”. |
Camera recording | Enable to notify when an issue prevents a camera from recording. See also “Video viewing issues” and “Connectivity issues”. |
Camera disk | Enable to notify when the disk partition that stores video data is full. See also “Data storage issues”. |
6. Click Apply.