McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

Create an alert

Create an alert message for actions taken by a scanner or filter.

Task
1 From the product's user interface, click Policy Manager | Shared Resource.
The Shared Resources page appears.
2 Click Scanners & Alerts tab.
3 From the Category drop-down list under Alerts section, select the alert you want to configure for a scanner.
4 Click Create New.
The Alert Editor page appears.
5 Type a meaningful Alert name.
6 Select the required Style, Font, Size, and Tokens from the respective drop-down lists.
These options are available only if you select HTML content (WYSIWYG) from the Show drop-down menu.
7 Use any of these tools to customize your alert:


Toolbar options
Options Description
Bold To make the selected text bold.
Italic To make the selected text italic.
Underline To underline the selected text.
Align Left To left align the selected paragraph.
Center To center the selected paragraph.
Align Right To right align the selected paragraph.
Justify To adjust the selected paragraph so that the lines within the paragraph fill a given width, with straight left and right edges.
Ordered List To make the selected text into a numbered list.
Unordered List To make the selected text into a bulleted list.
Outdent To move the selected text a set distance to the right.
Indent To move the selected text a set distance to the left.
Text Color To change the color of the selected text.
Background Color To change the background color of the selected text.
Horizontal Rule To insert a horizontal line.
Insert Link To insert a hyperlink where the cursor is currently positioned. In URL, type the URL. In Text, type the name of the hyperlink as you want it to appear in the alert message. If you want the link to open a new window, select Open link in new window, then click Insert Link.
Insert Image To insert an image where the cursor is currently positioned. In Image URL, type the location of the image. In Alternative text, type the text you want to use in place of the image when images are suppressed or the alert message is displayed in a text-only browser. If you want to give the image a title, type the title name in Use this text as the image title. Click Insert Image.
Insert Table To insert a table at the current cursor position. Type the values in Rows, Columns, Table width, Border thickness, Cell padding, and Cell spacing to configure the table, then click Insert Table.
8 From the Show drop-down menu, specify how the alert message should be displayed within the user interface. You can select:

HTML content (WYSIWYG) — To hide the underlying HTML code and display only the content of the alert message.

HTML content (source) — To display the alert message with the HTML code as it appears before compilation.

Plain-text content — To display the content as plain text.

You can use the following notification fields to include them in your alert message. For example, in your alert message, if you want the name of the detected item and the action taken when it was detected, use %vrs% and %act% on the Alert Editor page. For more information on the notification field options, see the Notification fields that you can use section.

McAfee recommends that you save the log files in plain text format so that the content can be viewed by any email client.
9 Click Save to return to the policy page.
Click Reset to undo all changes you have made since you last saved the alert message.