What is Granular Event Management?

The purpose of Granular Event Management is to provide all the event handling and alerting functionality for GMS. The GMS management interface provides screens for centralized event management on the Console panel, including screens for Events > Settings, Severity, Threshold, Schedule, and Alert Settings. The Firewall, SRA, CDP, and Email Security panels also provide an Events > Alert Settings screen where you can add, delete, enable, or configure alerts that relate to either policies or reports.

You can create or update an alert at the global, group, or unit level in GMS. At the group or global level, the alert is then applied to all units in the group or globally. Whenever you add a new unit to GMS management, the alerts set at the global level are applied to the new unit. Group level alerts are not automatically applied to the new unit, but when you update an alert at the group level, the update applies the alert to the entire group including any new units.