This section list Alerter CLI commands.
The Alerter subsystem transmits messages that have been queued by other components - correlation alerts that have been queued by the Anomaly Detection subsystem, or run-time alerts that have been generated by security policies, for example. The Alerter subsystem can be configured to send messages to both SMTP and SNMP servers. Alerts can also be sent to syslog or custom alerting classes, but no special configuration is required for those two options, beyond starting the Alerter. There are four types of Alerter commands. Use the links in the lists, or browse the commands, which are listed in alphabetical sequence following the lists.
Alerter Start-up and Polling Commands
SMTP Configuration Commands
SNMP Configuration Commands
Restarts the Alerter. You can perform the same function using the store alerter state operational command to stop and then start the alerter:
store alerter state operational off
store alerter state operational on
Syntax
restart alerter
Stops the Alerter.
You can perform the same function using the store alerter state operational command:
store alerter state operational off
Syntax
stop alerter
Starts (on) or stops (off) the Alerter. The default state at installation time is off. You can also use the restart alerter or stop alerter commands to restart or stop the Alerter subsystem.
Syntax
store alerter state operational <on | off>
Show Command
show alerter state operational
Sets the alerter SMTP authentication password to the specified value. There is no corresponding show command.
Syntax
store alerter smtp authentication <value>
Sets the authentication type required by the SMTP server to the one of the following values:
none: Send without authentication.
auth: Username/password authentication. When used, set the user account and password using the following commands:
store alerter smtp authentication username
store alerter smtp authentication password
Syntax
store alerter smtp authentication type <none | auth>
Show Command
show alerter smtp authentication type
Usage: store syslog-trap ON | OFF