Notifications

Notification informs users alerts triggered by policy violation, compliance/c-level reports generation, or any critical system notification.

To access Notification, go to Admin > Notification.

Email Notification

E-mail notification from FortiCWP are sent over secure SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption protocol. All messages are transmitted only through the SSL encrypted port for extra security.

Follow these steps to receive e-mail notification:

1. Go to Admin > Notifications.
2. Click on +Email Notification Receiver tab.
3. Click on Email Receivers field to select a e-mail address or enter a new email address and press Enter.



4. Enter additional new e-mail address as needed and press Enter.
5. Click to select/unselect notification types to send.
6. Click to select/unselect report types to send.



7. Click Add New Receiver to complete email notification setup.

SQS Notification

Before setting up SQS notification, following Amazon SQS guide to create a new queue:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-getting-started.html.

Grant SendMessage and SendMessageBatch rights to the Role that was added to FORTICWP:

{

"Version": "2012-10-17",

"Statement": [

{

"Sid": "VisualEditor0", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [

"sqs:SendMessageBatch",

"sqs:SendMessage"

],

"Resource": "*"// here you can modify it to a specific Queue Arn

}

]

}

After setting up a new queue, find and copy the SQS URL and region from the SQS details.

Now go back to FortiCWP, and follow these steps to setup SQS notification.

1. Go to Admin > Notifications.
2. Click on +SQS Notification Receiver button.



3. Click on the AWS account drop down menu to select the AWS account.
4. Enter the SQS URL from the SQS details of the new queue you setup earlier.
5. Select the AWS Region from the SQS details of the new queue you setup earlier.
6. Click Add New Receiver to complete setting up SQS notification.

SNS Notification

Follow the Amazon guideline at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/CreateTopic.html to create an Amazon SNS topic.

Grant the publish right to the Role which was added to FortiCWP:

{

"Version": "2012-10-17",

"Statement": [

{

"Sid": "VisualEditor0",

"Effect": "Allow", "Action": "sns:Publish",

"Resource": "*" // here you can modify it to a specific SNS Topic Arn

}

]

}

After setting up the SNS topic, go to the SNS topic details and copy the SNS topic ARN and region for use later.

Now go back to FortiCWP, and follow these steps to setup SNS notification.

1. Go to Admin > Notifications.
2. Click on +SNS Notification Receiver tab.



3. Click and select the AWS account that you want to receive SNS notification.
4. Enter the SNS ARN from the SNS details of the SNS topic you setup earlier.
5. Select the AWS Region from the SNS details of the new SNS topic you setup earlier.
6. Click Add New Receiver to complete setting up SNS notification.