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NVR configuration Page 34 FortiRecorder 2.4.2 Administration Guide
ICMP
ECHO_REQUEST
(ping), go to Monitor > System Status > Console and enter the
command:
execute traceroute <syslog_ipv4>
where
<syslog_ipv4>
is the IPv4 address of your FortiAnalyzer or Syslog server.
See also
• Connectivity issues
• Data storage issues
Alert email
As the FortiRecorder system administrator, you can receive alert email whenever an important
system event occurs, such as the hard disk being full and so on. Before you configure alert
email, you must configure the mail server settings so that FortiRecorder can send out email. For
details see
“Configuring FortiRecorder to send notification email” .
You can configure up to 10 alert email addresses.
To configure alert email settings
1. Go to Logs and Alerts > Alert Email > Configuration .
2. Click New .
3. Type your email address, such as
admin@example.com
.
This setting is the recipient only for appliance-related notifications, such as the hard disk
being full. It does
not configure the recipient of camera-related notifications, such as motion
detection. For this kind of video-related notifications, see “Notifications” .
4. Click Create .
5. Go to Logs and Alerts > Alert Email > Categories . Mark the check boxes of all appliance
events that you want to trigger an alert email to be sent, such as:
6. Click Apply .
Setting name Description
Critical events Enable to notify when serious system events occur such as
daemon crashes. See also
“Resource issues” .
Disk is full Enable to notify when the disk partition that stores log data is full.
See also
“Data storage issues” .
Camera device Enable to notify when a defined camera configuration has been
enabled or disabled, or if there are problems with the camera. (The
FortiRecorder NVR will not control or record video from a camera
that is not enabled in its list of known, configured devices. See
“Camera settings” .)
Camera
communications Enable to notify when there has been a network error during
communications between the NVR and camera. See also
“Connectivity issues” .
Camera recording Enable to notify when an issue prevents a camera from recording.
See also
“Video viewing issues” and “Connectivity issues” .
Camera disk Enable to notify when the disk partition that stores video data is
full. See also
“Data storage issues” .