Messages can be sent to a user-defined destination.
Message filtering levels
Messages can be filtered according to their severity, based on any or all of the levels from the following list:
•
Emergency
•
Alert
•
Critical
•
Error
•
Warning
•
Notice
•
Info
•
Debug
To configure event destinations:
1.
In the navigation menu, click
Monitoring - Notification Destinations
.
2.
Next to the rule you want to configure, click
Configure
.
3.
Enter the destination and tag in the appropriate fields.
4. Use the arrow keys to select the facility and severity as desired.
5.
Click
Apply
.
To configure syslog message filtering:
1.
From the sidebar, go to
Monitoring
. From the drop-down list, choose the Facility.
2.
Under the Notification Rules heading, check the boxes for the events for which you want to receive syslog alerts
and click
Apply
.
3.
From the sidebar, go to
Monitoring - Notification Destinations
and under the Syslog heading, click
Configure
next to the rule you want to configure.
4. On the Syslog Rules page under the Configure Syslog Rule, enter the Destination. The destination can be an IP
address or a log file name.
5.
The Tag field is optional and will filter messages that do not match the Tag string.
6. Under the Facility heading, use the arrows to select the local facilities.
7.
Under the Severity heading, use the arrows to select the severity.
8.
Click
Apply
.
6.1.3 Email
You can configure the appliance to send alerts to an email address.
To configure email alerts:
1.
From the sidebar, go to
Appliance Settings - Email Settings
and enter the SMTP server IP address, port
number, sender username and password for the email server.
NOTE: It is recommended you create an email account for the appliance. This will be the account from which the
notification emails will be sent.
2.
Click
Apply
.
3.
From the sidebar, go to
Network Settings
to ensure the host name of the appliance is the fully-qualified domain
name. Emails sent from the appliance will have a sender address of notification@<appliance FQDN>.
4. From the sidebar, go to
Monitoring
. Under the Notification Rules heading, check the boxes for the events for
which you want to receive email alerts.
5.
From the sidebar, go to
Monitoring - Notification Destinations
. Under the Email Address heading, enter the
email address where the notifications will be sent.
6. Click
Apply
.
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