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System configuration

Replacement messages

FortiGate-4000 Installation and Configuration Guide

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Customizing alert emails

Customize alert emails to control the content displayed in alert email messages sent
to system administrators.

To customize alert emails

1

Go to System > Config > Replacement Messages.

2

For the alert email message that you want to customize, select Modify

.

3

In the Message setup dialog box, edit the text of the message.

Table 44

lists the replacement message sections that can be added to alert email

messages and describes the tags that can appear in each section. In addition to the
allowed tags you can add text and HTML code.

4

Select OK to save the changes.

Table 44: Alert email message sections

NIDS event

Used for NIDS event alert email messages

Section Start

<**NIDS_EVENT**>

Allowed Tags

%%NIDS_EVENT%%

The NIDS attack message.

Section End

<**/NIDS_EVENT**>

Virus alert

Used for virus alert email messages

Section Start

<**VIRUS_ALERT**>

Allowed Tags

%%VIRUS%%

The name of the virus.

%%PROTOCOL%%

The service for which the virus was detected.

%%SOURCE_IP%%

The IP address from which the virus was received.

For email this is the IP address of the email server

that sent the email containing the virus. For HTTP

this is the IP address of web page that sent the

virus.

%%DEST_IP%%

The IP address of the computer that would have

received the virus. For POP3 this is the IP address

of the user’s computer that attempted to download

the email containing the virus.

%%EMAIL_FROM%% The email address of the sender of the message in

which the virus was found.

%%EMAIL_TO%%

The email address of the intended receiver of the

message in which the virus was found.

Section End

<**/VIRUS_ALERT**>

Block alert

Used for file block alert email messages

Section Start

<**BLOCK_ALERT**>

Allowed Tags

%%FILE%%

The name of the file that was blocked.

%%PROTOCOL%%

The service for which the file was blocked.

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