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ZyWALL 10 Internet Security Gateway

Introducing the ZyWALL Web Configurator

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15.2 Enabling the Firewall

Click Firewall, then Configuration, then the Rule Config tab to enable the firewall as seen in the following
screen.

Figure 15-3 Enabling the Firewall

15.3 E-mail

This screen allows you to specify your mail server, where e-mail alerts should be sent as well as when and
how often they should be sent.

15.3.1 What are Alerts?

Alerts are reports on events such as attacks, which you may want to know about right away. You can choose
to generate an alert when an attack is detected in the Attack Alert screen (Figure 15-6 - check the Generate
an alert when attack detected
checkbox) or when a rule is matched in the creating/editing a firewall rule
screen (see Figure 16-4)

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When an event generates a report (an alert), a message is immediately sent to an e-