Setting Up Alert Notifications; Viewing Alert Notification Details - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Configuration Manual

McAfee® Network Security Platform 5.1
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To clear the Manager Cache, do the following:
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Setting up alert notifications

Your Manager can send alert information to third-party machines such as SNMP servers
and Syslog servers. You can also configure Manager to notify you—via email, pager, or
script—of detected attacks based on the attack or attack severity. You can perform the
following tasks with respect to alert notifications:
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Figure 154: Alert Notification Tab

Viewing alert notification details

The
settings. The summary reflects configurations made within
Cached Reconnaissance policies:
cache.
Names of Cached Reconnaissance policies
Manager cache.
IPS Settings > Maintenance > Manager Pruning
Select
Clear Caches
Click .
Viewing alert notification details (on page 143): View the configured parameters of all
Alert Notification
actions.
Forwarding alerts to an SNMP server (on page 144): Forward Network Security
Platform alert information to a defined SNMP server.
Forwarding alerts to a Syslog server (on page 146): Forward Network Security
Platform alerts to a defined Syslog server.
Specifying email or pager parameters for alert notification (on page 150): Configure
how users are contacted when attacks are detected that require immediate attention.
Specifying script parameters for alert notification (on page 152): Configure a script to
be executed when attacks are detected that require immediate attention.
Alert Notification > Summary
action displays a summary of configured alert notification
The number of reconnaissance policies in Manager
: The names of reconnaissance policies in
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Managing IPS settings
Alert Notification
group actions.