Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1070 User Guide

feature on your appliance. Alerts are generated by the IronPort appliance. You can 
specify, at a much more granular level, which alert messages are sent to which 
users and for which severity of event they are sent. Manage alerts via the System 
Administration > Alerts page in the GUI (or via the 

alertconfig

 command in the 

CLI).

The alerting feature consists of two main parts: 

Alerts - consist of an Alert Recipient (email addresses for receiving alerts), 
and the alert notification (severity and alert type) sent to the recipient.

Alert Settings - specify global behavior for the alerting feature, including 
alert sender (FROM:) address, seconds to wait between sending duplicate 
alerts, and whether to enable AutoSupport (and optionally send weekly 
AutoSupport reports).

Alerts are email messages or notifications containing information about a specific 
function (or alert classification) or functions such as a hardware or anti-virus 
problem, sent to an alert recipient. An alert recipient is simply an email address 
to which the alert notifications are sent. The information contained in the 
notification is determined by an alert classification and a severity. You can specify 
which alert classifications, at which severity, are sent to any alert recipient. The 
alerting engine allows for granular control over which alerts are sent to which 
alert recipients. For example, you can configure the system to send only specific 
alerts to an alert recipient, configuring an alert recipient to receive notifications 
only when Critical (severity) information about the System (alert type) is sent. 
You can also configure general settings (see 

See 

 for a complete list of alerts.

AsyncOS sends the following alert classifications:

System