Viewing alerts
The Security Alerts page displays a list of all alerts generated from all databases and their details. You can filter the list using a pre-defined alert group, an alert group that you defined, or by date.
You can also export the list in a number of formats.
You can also export the alert list in several different formats.
Security Alerts page columns
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| ID | FortiDB assigns alert identifiers sequentially. |
| Type |
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| Status |
One of the following types of alert status: You can change the alert status from the Alert Summary page.
For information on changing the status value, see Viewing alerts. |
| Severity | Severity of the policy that generated the alert: Informational, Cautionary, Minor, Major, or Critical |
| Received Time | The date and time when FortiDB received the alert |
| Target | Name of the target database |
| Source Location | Hostname of source client |
| Policy Violation & Action | The name of the policy that generated the alert the action that violated the rule |
indicates that a table policy generated the alert
indicates that a table and column policy generated the alert
indicates that a session policy generated the alert
indicates that a user policy generated the alert
indicates that a database query policy generated the alert
indicates that a privilege policy policy generated the alert
indicates that a metadata policy generated the alert
(Unacknowledged)
(Error Corrected)
(Alert has an annotation created by a FortiDB administrator)Security Alerts page filtering options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| View | Filter alerts based on the alert group, per-defined or user-defined, by select group from View drop-down list. |
| Search |
Click Search / New Group to define search criteria, or click the Edit button to modify search criteria of user-defined group. When you finish search criteria configuration, click the Search button to search alerts. You can also click the Save Group button to save the search criteria to an alert group quickly. For more information on groups, see Alert group. For information on search criteria configuration, see Filtering and searching alerts. |
| Date Range and Entry Limit | Filters alerts based on the specified date range, and input number for Limit To, then click the Refresh button to refresh alerts. |
Click an alert to view its detail below the list. For more information, see Alert details.