Monitoring your system : Alert email
 
Alert email
To notify you of serious attack and/or system failure events, you can configure the FortiWeb appliance to generate an alert email.
Alerts appear on the dashboard. FortiWeb will also generate alert e-mail if you configure email settings and include them in a trigger that is used by system resource thresholds and/or traffic policies.
Alert email are based upon events that are also in log messages. If you have received an alert email and want to know more about the events, go to the corresponding log messages. For information on viewing locally stored log messages, see “Viewing log messages”.
To configure alert email
1. Configure email settings so that FortiWeb will be able to connect to an SMTP server that will deliver alerts. See “Configuring email settings”.
2. If you want to receive email about attacks or policy violations, add the email settings to the trigger that is used by those policies. See “Configuring triggers”.
3. If you want to receive email about system resource statuses, configure alert thresholds. See “Enabling log types, packet payload retention, & resource shortage alerts”.
4. If you want to receive copies of event log messages via email, See “Configuring alert email for event logs”.