Notifications

When e-mail or other notifications are required for alerting actions, follow the procedure outlined below for each type of notification to be defined.

SNMP

  1. Select SNMP from the Notification Type list.

  2. Click the Add button.

Mail

  1. Select Mail from the Notification Type list. If the Severity of the message is HIGH, the Urgent flag will be set.

  2. Select a user (which can be an individual or group) from the Alert Receiver list.

  3. Click the Add button.

Custom

For information about developing custom alerting classes, see Custom Alerting in the Monitor/Audit help book.

  1. Select CUSTM from the Notification Type list.

  2. Select the custom notification from the list.

  3. Click the Add button.

SYSLOG

  1. Select SYSLOG from the Notification Type list. The priority of the syslog message will be set according to the Severity of the Guardium alert.

  2. Click the Add button.

There are several ways that the Guardium administrator can view the syslog file. For appliances that are managed by a Central Manager, it can be viewed directly from the Central Manager panel. For any Guardium appliance, the syslog file can be displayed using the diag CLI command. In addition, the Guardium administrator can direct syslog output to remote systems, directing messages by a combination of facility.priority to various remote systems. See the store remotelog CLI command in the Configuration and Control CLI Commands topic, for more information.