SFW provides event notification by SMTP email, by pager, and through the SNMP traps that can be displayed in HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, and IBM Tivoli. You can configure the notification service to send messages to specific individuals, to groups, or to a management console in the case of SNMP traps. The event notification service is implemented through SFW's Rule Management utility. If you want to set up event notification, you must use the Rule Management utility to set up the rules that send out notifications after certain events occur. You access the Rule Management utility through SFW's Control Panel.

The details of defining the rules for events are in the online Help in the module "Optional Rules for Handling Events." To invoke the online Help, choose Contents from the Help menu in SFW. In the tree view that comes up in the left pane, you see the help module "Optional Rules for Handling Events."