Fortinet FortiGate-800 manual Customizing alert emails, 183, Alert email message sections

System configuration Replacement messages

Customizing alert emails

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

To customize alert emails

1Go to System > Config > Replacement Messages.

2For the alert email message that you want to customize, select Modify .

3In the Message setup dialog box, edit the text of the message.

Table 36 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.

4Select OK to save the changes.

Table 36: 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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