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19.3 Alerts

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For each item either a color or the Default option can be chosen. Default colors are set in the

operating system (the common setting for default colors is black font and white background).

Font Color

Active connections — connections with currently active data traffic

Inactive connections — TCP connections which have been closed but 2 minutes

after they were killed they are still kept active — to avoid repeated packet mis-

handling)

Background Color

Local connections — connections where an IP address of the host with WinRoute

is either source or destination

Inbound connections — connections from the Internet to the local network (al-

lowed by firewall)

Outbound connections — connections from the local network to the Internet

Note: Incoming and outgoing connections are distinguished by detection of direction of

IP addresses — “out” (SNAT) or “in” (DNAT). For details, refer to chapter

7

.

19.3 Alerts

WinRoute enables automatic sending of messages informing the administrator about impor-

tant events. This makes WinRoute administration more comfortable, since it is not necessary

to connect to the firewall via the Administration Console too frequently to view all status in-

formation and logs (however, this does not mean that it is not worthy to do this occasionally).

WinRoute generates alert messages upon detection of any specific event for which alerts are

preset. All alert messages are recorded into the Alert log (see chapter

22.3

). The WinRoute

administrator can specify which alerts will be sent to whom, as well as a format of the alerts.

Sent alerts can be viewed in Status Alerts.

Note: SMTP relay must be set in WinRoute (see chapter

18.3

), otherwise alerting will not work.

Alerts Settings

Alerts settings can be configured in the Alerts settings tab under Configuration Accounting.

Figure 19.10

WinRoute Alerts

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