NETGEAR SRXN3205 - ProSafe Wireless-N VPN Firewall Wireless Router Reference Manual page 180

ProSafe Wireless-N VPN Firewall SRXN3205 Reference Manual
your LAN; denied incoming and outgoing service requests; hacker probes and login attempts; and
other general information based on the settings you input on the Firewall Logs & E-mail menu. In
addition, if you have set up Content Filtering on the Block Sites screen (see
(Content Filtering)" on page
access a blocked site.
You must have e-mail notification enabled to receive the logs in an e-mail message. If you don't
have e-mail notification enabled, you can view the logs by clicking the View Logs option arrow to
the right of the tab. Selecting all events will increase the size of the log, so it is good practice to
select only those events which are required
To configure logging and notifications:
1. Select Monitoring from the main menu and Firewall Logs & E-mail from the submenu.
The Firewall Logs & E-mail screen displays.
2. Enter the name of the log in the Log Identifier field.
Log Identifier is a mandatory field used to identify which device sent the log messages. The
identifier is appended to log messages.
3. In the Routing Logs section, select the network segments for which you would like logs to be
sent (for example, LAN to WAN under Dropped Packets).
4. In the System Logs section, select the type of system events to be logged.
5. Check Yes to enable E-mail Logs. Then enter:
a. E-mail Server address. Enter either the IP address or Internet name of your ISP's
outgoing E-mail SMTP server. If you leave this box blank, no logs will be sent to you.
b. Return E-mail Address. Enter an e-mail address to appear as the sender.
c. Send To E-mail Address. Enter the e-mail address where the logs and alerts should be
sent. You must use the full e-mail address (for example, jsmith@example.com).
6. No Authentication is selected by default. If your SMTP server requires user authentication,
select the required authentication type—either Login Plain or CRAM-MD5. Then enter the
user name and password to be used for authentication.
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5-18), a log will be generated when someone on your network tries to
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"Setting Block Sites
Monitoring System Performance