• Configure your ESET product to automatically email administrators or other users when threats are detected in your network

You can use ESET Security Management Center to configure SMTP settings on client workstations so that threat or event notification emails are sent to a designated email address. You can also configure ESET endpoint settings to send SMTP messages from client workstations.

Prerequisites

Make sure SMTP Server is configured.

 Endpoint users: Perform these steps on individual client workstations

There are two methods for configuring threat notifications using ESET Security Management Center:

• Configure server notifications
• Use a policy

Configure SMTP threat notifications using server notifications

1. Open ESET Security Management Center Web Console (ESMC Web Console) in your web browser and log in.

2. Click Notifications, select the check box next to the notification you want to configure and then click Actions → Edit (in this example, Network attack alert is selected).

   
   
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3. Move the slider bar under Enabled to the right to enable the notification.

   

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4. Click Distribution and type the email address you want this notification sent to into the Email Address field.

   Optional settings

   Click Basic and modify the name and description of the email notification.
   Click Configuration and modify the rules that trigger the notification.
   Click Distribution and modify the text of the email notification in the Message field.
   Click Advanced Settings - Throttling and further refine the volume and frequency of your notifications based on statistical and time-based triggers.

5. Click Finish. Repeat the steps above to configure the other Notifications listed in step 2.

   

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Configure SMTP threat notifications using a policy

1. Open ESET Security Management Center Web Console (ESMC Web Console) in your web browser and log in.

2. Click Policies, select the policy you want to set up SMTP threat notifications for and then click Policies → Edit.
   

   

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3. Click Settings and click Tools → Email notifications.

1. Move the slider bar next to Send event notifications by email to the right.
2. Type your server address into the SMTP server field, as well as the username and password needed for authentication (if necessary).
3. Type the email address you want notifications to be sent to in the Recipient address field; type the email address you want displayed as sender in the Sender address field.
4. Select your desired verbosity level from the Minimum verbosity for notifications drop-down menu. Click here for more information about verbosity levels.

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4. Scroll down and in the Message Format section, you can modify the format of the SMTP threat notification emails that are generated in the Format of event messages and Format of threat warning messages fields.
   

   

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5. Click Finish to save the policy.

All clients assigned to this policy will now send SMTP threat notifications to the email address (Recipient address) you specified in step 3.