Technical Tip: FortiAnalyzer integration with SMTP email server (SendGrid)

Pre-requisites:

Create an account in Sendgrid and create a sender.

Steps in Sendgrid:

There are 2 ways to create and link options from Sendgrid.

Option A: Manually create an API key.

• Create an API Key in SendGrid with full access rights (Save the key generated by SendGrid as it will only be accessible once).

Option B: Create the API key directly and follow the instructions to fill in FortiAnalyzer parameters. 

• In SendGrid, go to the email API menu -> Integration Guide -> SMTP Relay and select 'choose'.

• Select 'Create Key' and save the name and key of the API (generated due only 1 time will be displayed).
• Follow the instructions that were filled out automatically to configure the FortiAnalyzer section.

Configuration in FortiAnalyzer :

1. Use the information generated in the SendGrid:

• Set the server name to identify it in FortiAnalyzer.
• Input the server info provided by SendGrid (which was also referred to in the integration section).
• Set the port (in this case 25 was used for TLS connection, this could change according to requirements).
• Enable authentication to input the credentials generated in SendGrid.
• Set the username (the SendGrid page provides this as an API key and can be confirmed in the integration guide section on the Sendgrid page).
• Set the API key generated by SendGrid as a password when creating the API connector and select 'OK'.

2. After configuring, test the email sending under the System settings -> Advanced -> Mail Server, select configured SMTP, and test. Input the email address of the sender and recipient. Wait for the result and validate in the email address the reception of the email.

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