Alert Email Log&Report
FortiGate Version 4.0 Administration Guide
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Configuring Alert Email
Before configuring alert email, you must configure at least one DNS server if you are
configuring with an Fully Qualified Domain Server (FQDN). The FortiGate unit uses the
SMTP server name to connect to the mail server, and must look up this name on your
DNS server. You can also specify an IP address.
To configure alert email
1 Go to Log&Report > Log Config > Alert E-mail.
2 Enter the information for the SMTP server and select Apply.
3 Select Test Connectivity to send a test email message to the email account you
configured in the above step.
4 Select Send alert email for the following if you require sending an email
based and then select the alert options you want.
5 Select Send an alert based on severity if you require sending an alert email based on
log severity level.
6 Select the minimum severity level in the Minimum severity level list if you are sending
an alert based on severity.
7 Select Apply.
Violation traffic
detected
Select if you require an alert email message based on violated traffic
that is detected by the FortiGate unit.
Firewall authentication
failure
Select if you require an alert email message based on firewall
authentication failures.
SSL VPN login failure Select if you require an alert email message based on any SSL VPN
logins that failed.
Administrator
login/logout
Select if you require an alert email message based on whether
administrators log in or out.
IPSec tunnel errors Select if you require an alert email message based on whether there is
an error in the IPSec tunnel configuration.
L2TP/PPTP/PPPoE
errors
Select if you require an alert email message based on errors that
occurred in L2TP, PPTP, or PPPoE.
Configuration changes Select if you require an alert email message based on any changes
made to the FortiGate configuration.
FortiGuard license
expiry time (1-100
days)
Enter the number of days before the FortiGuard license expiry time
notification is sent.
FortiGuard log quota
usage
Select if you require an alert email message based on the FortiGuard
Analysis server log disk quota getting full.
Send alert email for logs
based on severity
Select if you want to send an alert email that is based on a specified
log severity, such as warning.
Minimum log level Select a log severity from the list. For more information about log
severity levels, see “Log severity levels” on page 649.
Note: The default minimum log severity level is Alert. If the FortiGate unit collects more
than one log message before an interval is reached, the FortiGate unit combines the
messages and sends out one alert email.
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