Editing Event Destinations

Event destinations determine the channels via which vWAF notifies you when one of the conditions defined for the Event Sources becomes true (see also Configuring Alerts).

Event destinations are combined into event destination groups. Event sources aren’t directly linked to individual event destinations but always to exactly one event destination group.

You can add as many event destinations to an event destination group as you like. For example, if you want to send an alert message by email not only to one but to various recipients, just add several Mail Event Destinations to the event destination group. You can then specify a different mail to attribute for each Mail Event Destination.

Creating and editing an event destination group

The created event destination group only is available for the application for which it has been created but not for other applications or for global alerting. If the event destination group is created for global alerting, it only is available for global alerting but not for application-specific alerting.

  1. If you want to add or edit an event destination group for global events: Select the menu item Administration > Alerting Configuration.
    If you want to add or edit an event destination group for application-specific events: In the navigation area, select the application and activate the Configuration | Alerting Configuration tab.
  2. Activate the Event Destination Groups tab.

  3. If you want to create a new event destination group: Enter a name into the Create Event Destination Group field and click the Create button.

    If you want to edit an existing event destination group: Click the corresponding Edit icon in the Action column.

    The event destination group opens and can be edited.

You can now add, edit and remove individual event destinations (see following sections).

If you need to set up several groups that are largely identical, you can duplicate an existing group. To do so, click the green Export/Import icon in the Action column, and then click Copy from exiting. You can also export a group’s settings into a file and then import them back into another group.

Adding event destinations

  1. If you want to add an event destination for global events: Select the following menu item: Administration > Alerting Configuration
    If you want to add an event destination for application-specific events: In the navigation area, select the application and activate the Configuration | Alerting Configuration tab.
  2. Activate the Event Destination Groups tab.
  3. In the Action column, click the Edit icon of the event destination group to which you want to add an event destination. The Event Destination Group listing opens.
  4. From the selection list under Add Event Destination, select the event destination to be added. Details on the individual event destinations can be found in the reference part of this documentation under Event Destinations.

  5. Click the Add button.

The event destination just added then appears highlighted on the list. The event destination initially inherits the attributes preset on the system. To configure the destination in detail, you need to edit it.

Editing an Event Destination

  1. If you want to edit an event destination for global events: Select the menu item Administration > Alerting Configuration
    If you want to edit an event destination for application-specific events: In the navigation area, select the application and activate the Configuration | Alerting Configuration tab.
  2. Activate the Event Destination Groups tab.
  3. In the Action column, click the Edit icon of the event destination group that contains the event destination that you want to edit. The Event Destination Group listing opens.
  4. In the Action column, click the relevant Edit icon.

    The attributes of the event destination are shown.

    • In the Inheritance column you can see whether the values given under Value have been inherited as system-based presets (Inherited entry) or have been modified individually (Local entry).
    • The Owner column shows the username of the administrator who made that setting. The BUILT-IN entry identifies the default values.
    • The Last Commit column shows whether and when a setting has already been committed.

    Detailed information on the attributes of the individual event destinations can be found in the reference part of this documentation under Event Destinations.

  5. Make the required settings and then click the Save button.

Deleting an event destination

  1. If you want to delete an event destination for global events: Select the menu item Administration > Alerting Configuration.
    If you want to delete an event destination for application-specific events: In the navigation area, select the application and activate the Configuration | Alerting Configuration tab.
  2. Activate the Event Destination Groups tab.
  3. In the Action column, click the Edit icon of the event destination group that contains the event destination that you want to delete. The Event Destination Group listing opens.
  4. In the Action column, click the relevant Delete icon for the event destination that you want to remove.