Alerts; Viewing Alerts And Reports; Configuring Alert Forwarding - F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 9.0 Administrator's Manual

Alerts

This section describes how to view alerts and reports, and how to configure alert forwarding.

Viewing alerts and reports

The hosts can send alerts and reports if there has been a problem with a program or an operation.
When an alert is received, the
1.
Click .
The Alerts tab will open. All alerts received will be displayed in the following format:
Ack
Severity
Date/Time
Description
Host/User
Product
When an alert is selected from the list, more specific information about the alert will be displayed. F-Secure
anti-virus scanning alerts may have an attached report, which will also be displayed.
2. To view reports, click on the
The Reports tab has the same structure as the
by clicking on the column heading.

Configuring alert forwarding

You can configure alerts by editing the
Agent Settings
The same table can also be found in the Management Agent product view in the
To configure alert forwarding:
1. Select F-Secure Management Agent
2. Specify where alerts are sent according to severity level.
The target can be Policy Manager Console, the local user interface, an alert agent (such as the
viewer, a log file, or SMTP), or a management extension.
The Alert forwarding
button will light up. To view the alerts:
Click the Ack button to acknowledge an alert. If all the alerts are acknowledged, the
Ack button will be dimmed.
The problem's severity. Each severity level has its own icon:
Info
Warning
Error
Fatal error
Security alert
Date and time of the alert.
Description of the problem.
Name of the host/user.
The F-Secure product that sent the alert.
Reports tab, or select
Alert forwarding
Alerting Alert Forwarding.
Settings
table has its own set of default values.
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Product view Messages
Alerts tab. Alerts tables and
table, which is located under
Alerting Alert Forwarding
Normal operating information
from a host.
A warning from the host.
Recoverable error on the host.
Unrecoverable error on the
host.
Security hazard on the host.
from the menu.
Reports tables can be sorted
F-Secure Management
Alert Forwarding tab.
from the menu.
Event