Configuring Alerts and Notifications on NSM

Using Alerts, you can create rules for the notices and see historic alerts and notifications for the following alert types: Network Usage, Threat, Web Activities, Geo-Location and System Events. You can set how you want to receive notifications when a type of alert is created. You can choose to get alerts in Notification Center, receive emails, and save notifications when an alert is triggered.

Creating an alert rule

1. In Firewall View, select MONITOR
2. Navigate to Alerts and Notifications 
3. Under Rules, click Add Rule.
   

   
   

    
   
   
   
4. Enter a name
5. Select Priority level. (High, Medium or Low)
6. Set Redundancy Filter (Currently ranges from 30 seconds to 6 hours)
7. Select the Alert Type. (Network Usage, Threat, Web Activities, Geo-Location and System Events)
8. Select alert Sub-Type (The alert sub type is different for all the alerts, for example, for threats, the sub-types are Intrusion, Botnet, Spyware and Virus)
9. Enter app bandwidth in Mbps. (Available only for Network Usage alert.
10. Click Next.
     
    
    
    
11. In the Actions page, select how you want to be alerted for the rule. The options are System Alerts, Email.
12. Select the History options to save the alerts if required.
13. Click Next.
     
14. Review the rule and click Save.
    
    The Alerts are setup now, We can use the history option now. The History feature shows the historic alerts generated for the rules you have created. The historic alert report can be customized based on time, details, info, type, sub-type, priority, alert name, and action. You can export the report as a CSV file for archiving purposes.
    
                                           
    
    
    

15. To export historic alerts

    1. Click the Export icon as highlighted in the image above.
    2. In the Export to File dialog, click OK.
    3. Save file to local machine.