Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi

Alert settings control the general behavior and configuration of alerts, including:

The RFC 2822 Header From: when sending alerts (enter an address or use the 
default “alert@<hostname>”). You can also set this via the CLI, using the 

alertconfig -> from

 command.

The initial number of seconds to wait before sending a duplicate alert.

The maximum number of seconds to wait before sending a duplicate alert.

The status of AutoSupport (enabled or disabled).

The sending of AutoSupport’s weekly status reports to alert recipients set to 
receive System alerts at the Information level.

You can specify the initial number of seconds to wait before AsyncOS will send 
a duplicate alert. If you set this value to 0, duplicate alert summaries are not sent 
and instead, all duplicate alerts are sent without any delay (this can lead to a large 
amount of email over a short amount of time). The number of seconds to wait 
between sending duplicate alerts (alert interval) is increased after each alert is 
sent. The increase is the number of seconds to wait plus twice the last interval. So 
a 5 second wait would have alerts sent at 5 seconds, 15, seconds, 35 seconds, 75 
seconds, 155 seconds, 315 seconds, etc.

Eventually, the interval could become quite large. You can set a cap on the number 
of seconds to wait between intervals via the maximum number of seconds to wait 
before sending a duplicate alert field. For example, if you set the initial value to 
5 seconds, and the maximum value to 60 seconds, alerts would be sent at 5 
seconds, 15 seconds, 35 seconds, 60 seconds, 120 seconds, etc.

Alerts sent from the appliance to addresses specified in the Alert Recipient follow 
SMTP routes defined for those destinations.