ZyWALL 10 Internet Security Gateway

15.2 Enabling the Firewall

Click Firewall, then Configuration, then the Rule Config tab to enable the firewall as seen in the following screen.

Figure 15-3 Enabling the Firewall

15.3 E-mail

This screen allows you to specify your mail server, where e-mail alerts should be sent as well as when and how often they should be sent.

15.3.1 What are Alerts?

Alerts are reports on events such as attacks, which you may want to know about right away. You can choose to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the Attack Alert screen (Figure 15-6 - check the Generate an alert when attack detected checkbox) or when a rule is matched in the creating/editing a firewall rule screen (see Figure 16-4).When an event generates a report (an alert), a message is immediately sent to an e-

Introducing the ZyWALL Web Configurator

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