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Alerts and Notifications

Rules

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. Click Rules.

3. Click Add Rule.

   

4. Enter a name and select Priority level.
5. Set Redundancy Filter.
6. Select the Alert Type.
7. Select alert Sub-Type and enter app bandwidth in Mbps.
8. Click Next.
9. In the Actions page, select how you want to be alerted for the rule. The options are System Alerts, Email.
10. Select the History options to save the alerts if required.
11. Click Next.
12. Review the rule and click Save.

VPN Tunnel Status Alert

VPN tunnel status alert is now available from NSM SaaS 2.3.5 onwards for both GEN6 and GEN 7 firewalls. You can refer the Release Notes to learn more about the latest build information. This feature requires the flow log transport mechanism to be changed to encrypted mode.

To enable this alert you need to create a new alert rule and select the Alert Type as System Events and the Sub-Type as Site-to-Site VPN. You also need to enter the VPN Tunnel Name and VPN Tunnel Status from the drop-down list.

History

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.

To export historic alerts

1. Click the Export icon.
2. In the Export to File dialog, click OK.
3. Save file to local machine.