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Nebula
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April 3, 2020
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Creating custom event handler

  • April 3, 2020
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Looking for instructions to create some custom event handlers for the following and have a notification sent to an email address.  

 

Failed login attempts on fortigates during specific hours.

 

IPSEC tunnels that are down for a specific amount of time.   

 

FortiAnalyzer-VM64

V6.2.3 GA Build1235 

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    chall_FTNT
    Staff
    Staff
    April 8, 2020

    Sounds like Generic Text Filter is the way to go.  It allows to match against specific text in a message.  As for timeframe, you'd have to include some logic that compares the dtime or itime fields to be > start-time & < end-time.

     

    Older KB article but with good step-by-step instructions: https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=FD35256

     

    And from the admin guide: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortianalyzer/6.2.3/administration-guide/157132/using-the-generic-text-filter-in-an-event-handler

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