Configuring notifications

GFI EndPointSecurity can send alerts to specified recipients when a particular event is generated. You can configure alerts to be sent by:

•

Email

•	Network message

•

SMS.

You can also specify the types of events for which alerts are to be sent:

•	Service events

•	Device connected events

•	Device disconnected events

•	Access allowed events

•	Access denied events.

You can specify alerting options on a protection policy by policy basis.

To specify alerting options:

1. Click on the Configuration tab.

2. Click Protection Policies.

3. From the left pane, select the protection policy for which you want to specify logging options.

4. From the right pane, click Alerting options in the Logging and Alerting section.

Screenshot 84 - Alerting options - General tab

5. Click on the General tab to specify the alert types to be sent.

Screenshot 85 - Configuring users and groups

6. For each alert type selected, click Configure to specify the user(s)/group(s) to whom the alert should be sent.

NOTE: These are not Active Directory (AD) or local users and groups schema. (You create the users and groups through Configuration > Options > Alerting Options).

Screenshot 86 - Alerting options - Filter tab

7. Click on the Filter tab to specify the event types for which alerts are to be sent.

8. Click OK to finalize settings.

9. Deploy the protection policy updates on to the computers included in the policy. From the left pane, right-click on the protection policy you configured and select Deployment > Deploy agent(s).

NOTE: You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + D to perform this step.