Chapter 17 Status Information
Note: Incoming and outgoing connections are distinguished by detection of direc- tion of IP addresses — “out” (SNAT ) or “in” (DNAT ). For details, refer to chapter 6.
17.3 Alerts
WinRoute enables automatic sending of messages informing the administrator about important 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 information 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 20.3). 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 16.4), otherwise alerting will not work.
Alerts Settings
Alerts settings can be configured in the Alerts settings tab under Configuration → Ac- counting.
Figure 17.10 WinRoute Alerts
This tab provides list of “rules” for alert sending. Use checking boxes to enable/disable individual rules.
Use the Add or the Edit button to (re)define an alert rule.
