| Description |
This article describes how to customize the admin alert email to be more user-friendly.
When configuring alert email in automation stitches sent to a recipient, by default, all fields in the event log are listed in the email body.
config system automation-stitch edit "Test Automation Stitches" set trigger "Network Down" config actions edit 1 set action "Default Email" set required enable next end next end
config system automation-trigger edit "Network Down" set description "Trigger when a network interface goes down." set event-type event-log set logid 20099 next end
config system automation-action edit "Default Email" set description "Send an email with information on the log event." set action-type email set email-to "admin@example.com" set email-from "fortinet@example.com" set email-subject "%%log.logdesc%%" set message "%%log%%” next end
Below is the alert email received. All fields in the event log are listed in the email body:
The email recipient wants to see part of the log fields instead of all. For example, date, time and msg fields are enough. It is preferred to one field one line. |
| Scope | FortiGate v7.2 and above. |
| Solution |
Specify date, time and msg variables in set message CLI, with each variable in a separate line.
config system automation-action edit "Default Email" set description "Send an email with customized information on the log event." set action-type email set email-to "admin@example.com" set email-from "fortinet@example.com" set email-subject "%%log.logdesc%%" set message "%%log.date%% %%log.time%% %%log.msg%%" next end
Below is the alert email received. The date, time, and msg are displayed:
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