Configuring email notifications for outdated security content using the CLI

Use the commands in this topic to configure email notifications for outdated security content using the appliance CLI.

Prerequisites

Operator or Admin access

To configure email notifications for outdated security content using the CLI:

Go to CLI configuration mode.

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

View the security content status.

hostname (config) # show fenet security-content status

Make sure that the appliance is configured to send notifications for failure-level system events.
If the option is disabled, use the following command to enable it, as described in Configuring automatic security content updates using the CLI .
```
hostname (config) # fenet security-content autoupdate notification class fail
```
Make sure that event notifications are configured, as described in the EX User Guide.
Make sure that automatic security content updates are enabled. When this feature is enabled, the Enabled field in the Security Content Autoupdate section of the command output displays "yes."
If the field displays "no," enable the feature, as described in Configuring automatic security content updates using the CLI .
View the configuration settings for generating email alerts for system events.
```
hostname (config) # show email
```
Information about the email notification recipients is listed in the Email notification recipients section of the command output. Each entry is of the following format:
```
<emailAddress> (<eventLevel>, <detailLevel>)
```
where configuration parameters are as follows:
- <emailAddress>—Email address that can receive system event notifications.
- <eventLevel>—The types of events sent to this recipient: all events, failure events only, or info events only.
- <detailLevel>—The type of information sent to this recipient: in detail or summarized.
The following is an example of the Email notification recipients section of the show email command output:
```
Email notification recipients:
  alan.brown@yourcompany.com (all events, in detail)
  john.green@yourcompany.com (failure events only, in detail)
  mary.jones@yourcompany.com (info events only, in detail)
  seth.smith@yourcompany.com (all events, summarized)
```
By default, email notification recipients are configured to receive all system events and in detail, as shown in the first entry in the example.
Make sure that everyone who needs to be warned about outdated security content has an email address listed in the Email notification recipients section of the output.
If an email address is missing from the list, add the recipient as described in Adding and removing system event notification recipients .
Make sure that every recipient who needs to be warned about outdated security content is configured to receive email notifications for "failure events only" or for "all events."
Important
System event notification recipients configured to receive notifications for "info events only" will not receive notifications for outdated security content.
If you need to change the type of events to send to an event notification recipient, see Configuring system event notifications for each user .

Verify your changes.

hostname (config) # show fenet security-content status
hostname (config) # show email

Save your changes.
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```