Configuring Events Settings

In the Settings screen, you can now view the EVENTS tab and change the priority of the event based on their severity. The alerts and notifications can be customized and change the way they display in the Notification center or alert.

When enabled, a notification or alert is triggered in a event level.

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest firmware for the alerts to be triggered. Refer Upgrading SonicOSX Firmware.

Category

• Device Management

  • Interfaces - Device Physical Interfaces status whether it is up or down.

  • License - Alerts the user when any of the previously activated firewall security services or NSM licenses are expiring.

  • Hardware operating conditions - Alerts when there is a hardware failure with Fan, power supply, network cards reset, and system disk status.

  • Health Status -Alerts when a device is disconnected with NSM or a local change is made to the firewall outside of NSM , and when device goes into unmanaged state.

  • HA Failover - Alerts if a primary or a secondary device fails or in the case of a failover.

  • Firmware - Alerts when there is a new firmware version available and if a firmware upgrade fails or applied successfully to the firewall.

• Configuration

  • Commit Status - Alerts when a new firewall configuration commit from NSM fails on the firewall or successfully applied.

• User

  • Authentication - Alerts when the user logs in and logs out .

• NSM Management

  • NSM Health Status- Alerts when NSM is down or is not accessible for any reason.

The table on the EVENTS page displays:

Term	Definition
CATEGORY / EVENTS	The events are displayed in a category. Expand each category to view the associated events.
COLOR	This helps color code the events in the Events page.
ID	Unique ID of the event. You can use this ID to search for a particular event in the Filter.
PRIORITY	Priority of the event. Expand each event and choose an option from the drop down. The available priorities are Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Inform, Debug, Mixed.
GUI	Choose to enable or disable the event to be displayed in the graphical user interface (GUI) under Notification center. Toggle each event to enable or disable the notification. If you check the box at the category level, it gets disabled for all the events listed under the category.
ALERT	Choose to alert and send the notifications in the group.
SMS	When enabled, an SMS is sent to the registered phone number of the user in the tenant. To view the contact information, refer Users.
EMAIL	Choose this option to receive notifications through email.
SYSLOG	You can configure the syslog information by clicking the SYSLOG tab on the top. Enter the Syslog Server IP and Port and click Accept. <![CDATA[ ]]>

Other functionalities on this page includes:

• Expand All - Expands all the categories and displays the events.

• Reset - Resets all the alerts and notifications to default settings.

• Refresh - Refreshes the information.

• Accept - After you make any changes to the notifications, click Accept to save them.

• Filter - Lets you to filter the events by name, priority, ID.