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14.4.3 Alerts

Alerts are reports on events, such as attacks, that you may want to know about right away. You
can choose to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the Edit Rule screen (select the
Send Alert Message to Administrator When Matched check box) or when a rule is matched
in the Edit Rule screen (see the
an alert, a message can be immediately sent to an e-mail account that you specify in the Log
Settings screen (see the chapter on logs).

14.5 Configuring Basic Firewall Settings

Click Firewall and then Default Policy to display the following screen. Activate the firewall
by selecting the Firewall Enabled check box as seen in the following screen.

Figure 67 Firewall: Default Policy

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 46 Firewall: Default Policy

LABEL
Firewall Enabled
Allow
Asymmetrical
Route
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DESCRIPTION
Select this check box to activate the firewall. The Prestige performs access control
and protects against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks when the firewall is activated.
Select this check box to have the Prestige firewall permit the use of triangle route
topology on the network. See the appendix for more on triangle route topology.
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section). When an event generates
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