# fortios_alertemail_setting – Configure alert email settings in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate

New in version 2.9.

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify alertemail feature and setting category. Examples include all parameters and values need to be adjusted to datasources before usage. Tested with FOS v6.0.5

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- fortiosapi>=0.9.8

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
alertemail_setting dictionary | Default: null | Configure alert email settings.

admin_login_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable administrator login/logout logs in alert email.

| alert_interval integer |  | Alert alert interval in minutes.

amc_interface_bypass_mode
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable Fortinet Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) interface bypass mode logs in alert email.

antivirus_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable antivirus logs in alert email.

configuration_changes_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable configuration change logs in alert email.

| critical_interval integer |  | Critical alert interval in minutes.
| debug_interval integer |  | Debug alert interval in minutes.
| email_interval integer |  | Interval between sending alert emails (1 - 99999 min).
| emergency_interval integer |  | Emergency alert interval in minutes.
| error_interval integer |  | Error alert interval in minutes.
| FDS_license_expiring_days integer |  | Number of days to send alert email prior to FortiGuard license expiration (1 - 100 days).

FDS_license_expiring_warning
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable FortiGuard license expiration warnings in alert email.

FDS_update_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable FortiGuard update logs in alert email.

filter_mode
string

Choices:
- category
- threshold

How to filter log messages that are sent to alert emails.

FIPS_CC_errors
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable FIPS and Common Criteria error logs in alert email.

firewall_authentication_failure_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable firewall authentication failure logs in alert email.

fortiguard_log_quota_warning
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable FortiCloud log quota warnings in alert email.

FSSO_disconnect_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable logging of FSSO collector agent disconnect.

HA_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable HA logs in alert email.

| information_interval integer |  | Information alert interval in minutes.

IPS_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable IPS logs in alert email.

IPsec_errors_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable IPsec error logs in alert email.

| local_disk_usage integer |  | Disk usage percentage at which to send alert email (1 - 99 percent).

log_disk_usage_warning
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable disk usage warnings in alert email.

| mailto1 string |  | Email address to send alert email to (usually a system administrator) (max. 64 characters).
| mailto2 string |  | Optional second email address to send alert email to (max. 64 characters).
| mailto3 string |  | Optional third email address to send alert email to (max. 64 characters).
| notification_interval integer |  | Notification alert interval in minutes.

PPP_errors_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable PPP error logs in alert email.

severity
string

Choices:
- emergency
- alert
- critical
- error
- warning
- notification
- information
- debug

Lowest severity level to log.

ssh_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable SSH logs in alert email.

sslvpn_authentication_errors_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable SSL-VPN authentication error logs in alert email.

| username string |  | Name that appears in the From: field of alert emails (max. 36 characters).

violation_traffic_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable violation traffic logs in alert email.

| warning_interval integer |  | Warning alert interval in minutes.

webfilter_logs
string

Choices:
- enable
- disable

Enable/disable web filter logs in alert email.

host string |  | FortiOS or FortiGate IP address.

https
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

Indicates if the requests towards FortiGate must use HTTPS protocol.

password string | Default: "" | FortiOS or FortiGate password.

ssl_verify
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

Ensures FortiGate certificate must be verified by a proper CA.

username string |  | FortiOS or FortiGate username.
vdom string | Default: "root" | Virtual domain, among those defined previously. A vdom is a virtual instance of the FortiGate that can be configured and used as a different unit.

## Notes

Note

- Requires fortiosapi library developed by Fortinet

- Run as a local_action in your playbook

## Examples

    - hosts: localhost
      vars:
       host: "192.168.122.40"
       username: "admin"
       password: ""
       vdom: "root"
       ssl_verify: "False"
      tasks:
      - name: Configure alert email settings.
        fortios_alertemail_setting:
          host:  "{{ host }}"
          username: "{{ username }}"
          password: "{{ password }}"
          vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
          https: "False"
          alertemail_setting:
            admin_login_logs: "enable"
            alert_interval: "4"
            amc_interface_bypass_mode: "enable"
            antivirus_logs: "enable"
            configuration_changes_logs: "enable"
            critical_interval: "8"
            debug_interval: "9"
            email_interval: "10"
            emergency_interval: "11"
            error_interval: "12"
            FDS_license_expiring_days: "13"
            FDS_license_expiring_warning: "enable"
            FDS_update_logs: "enable"
            filter_mode: "category"
            FIPS_CC_errors: "enable"
            firewall_authentication_failure_logs: "enable"
            fortiguard_log_quota_warning: "enable"
            FSSO_disconnect_logs: "enable"
            HA_logs: "enable"
            information_interval: "22"
            IPS_logs: "enable"
            IPsec_errors_logs: "enable"
            local_disk_usage: "25"
            log_disk_usage_warning: "enable"
            mailto1: "<your_own_value>"
            mailto2: "<your_own_value>"
            mailto3: "<your_own_value>"
            notification_interval: "30"
            PPP_errors_logs: "enable"
            severity: "emergency"
            ssh_logs: "enable"
            sslvpn_authentication_errors_logs: "enable"
            username: "<your_own_value>"
            violation_traffic_logs: "enable"
            warning_interval: "37"
            webfilter_logs: "enable"

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
build string | always | Build number of the fortigate image Sample: 1547
http_method string | always | Last method used to provision the content into FortiGate Sample: PUT
http_status string | always | Last result given by FortiGate on last operation applied Sample: 200
mkey string | success | Master key (id) used in the last call to FortiGate Sample: id
name string | always | Name of the table used to fulfill the request Sample: urlfilter
path string | always | Path of the table used to fulfill the request Sample: webfilter
revision string | always | Internal revision number Sample: 17.0.2.10658
serial string | always | Serial number of the unit Sample: FGVMEVYYQT3AB5352
status string | always | Indication of the operation's result Sample: success
vdom string | always | Virtual domain used Sample: root
version string | always | Version of the FortiGate Sample: v5.6.3

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)

- Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)

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