Configuring Alert Email
FortiRecorder can send alert emails whenever an important system event occurs, such as the hard disk being full.
Before you configure alert email, you must configure the mail server settings so that FortiRecorder can send out email. For details see “Configuring mail settings”.
You can configure up to 10 alert email addresses.
To configure alert email settings
- Go to Logs & Alert > Alert Email > Configuration.
- Select New.
- Enter your email address, such as admin@example.com.
This setting is the recipient only for appliance-related notifications, such as the hard disk being full. It does not configure the recipient of camera-related notifications, such as motion detection. For this kind of video-related notifications, see “Notifications”. - Select Create.
- Go t o Logs & Alert > Alert Email > Category. Mark the check boxes of all appliance events that you want to trigger an alert email to be sent, such as:
Setting Name
Description
System events
Enable to send an alert email message when an important system event occurs. These include system reboot/reload, firmware upgrade/downgrade, and log disk/mail disk formatting.
Disk is full
Enable to notify when the disk partition that stores log data is full.
Camera device altered
Enable to notify when a defined camera configuration has been enabled or disabled, or if there are problems with the camera. (The FortiRecorder will not control or record video from a camera that is not enabled in its list of known, configured devices.
Camera communication error
Enable to notify when there has been a network error during communications between the FortiRecorder and camera.
Camera recording error
Enable to notify when an issue prevents a camera from recording.
Camera alert summary
Enable to periodically sends messages related to both ongoing and resolved issues, like an interrupted video stream or an inability to start a video.
Video disk events
Enable to notify when events occur for the local or remote disk, such as the disk being full.
- Select Apply.