Adding a New Alert Receiver

The Add Alert Receiver page lets you add a new alert receiver.

1. Click Administration > Alert Receivers from the home page.
2. Click Add New.
3. In the Name field, enter the name for the alert receiver.
4. In the IP Address:Port field, enter the IP address and port for the alert receiver.
   If you do not enter a port number, then the port number is set to the default value, 162.
5. Under Enable, select the Yes radio button to enable the receiver after you complete this tab.
6. Under Receiver Type, select the radio button to indicate whether this is an SNMP Trap or Syslog receiver.
7. (Syslog only) In the Port field, enter the port number for the syslog receiver.
8. (SNMP trap only) In the Outbound Traps Community String field, enter the community string used between the SNMP manager and SNMP proxy to identify the sender.
   The SNMP receiver is configured with a community string, which is like a password, obtained from the SNMP receiver system administrator. All appliances sending traps to a single receiver must use the same string. Appliances sending traps to that receiver with any other string are ignored.
9. (SNMP trap only) In the Optional Text field, enter a description to appear in your trap message. For example, use this field to distinguish between two machines on the same trap server that sends messages. This optional text string is included in every SNMP trap.
10. In the Description field, enter a description for the alert receiver.
11. Click Add to add the alert receiver to the appliance.