Viewing the event log

April 4, 2024

ID 207721

To view the Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway event log:

  1. In the main window of the application web interface, open the management console tree and select the Events section.
  2. Select one of the following tabs depending on the type of events that you want to view:
    • Mail traffic.
    • System.

    Event information is displayed as a table.

    Columns of the table of email traffic processing events display the following information:

    • Date and time is the date and time when the event occurred.
    • Sender email is the email address of the message sender.
    • Sender IP is the IP address of the host that sent the message.
    • Recipient email is the email address of the message recipient.
    • Subject is the message subject.
    • Rule name is the name of the rule which caused the message to be processed.

      You can view rule details by clicking the link with the rule name.

    • Action is the action that was performed on the message.
    • Application message ID is the unique ID that the program assigns to the message.
    • SMTP message ID is the ID assigned to the message at the mail server.
    • Node is the IP address or port of the node where the message was processed.

    Columns of the system event table display the following information:

    • Date and time is the date and time when the event occurred.
    • Node is the IP address or port of the node where the message was processed.
    • Event type is the type of the event.
    • User is the user name of the node where the event occurred.
    • Result is the result of processing the event.
    • Details is the name of the detecting technology that logged the event.
  3. You can sort events in the columns. To do so, click the header of the column in the table:
    • Events in Sender email, Recipient email, Subject, Rule name, Action, Event type, User, Result, Details columns are sorted alphabetically: A to Z and Z to A.

      By default, event records are displayed in alphabetic order, A to Z.

    • Events in Date and time and Node columns are sorted in ascending and descending order.

      By default, event records are displayed in ascending order.

The table of events is displayed in accordance with sorting criteria.

By default, the table displays all columns. To customize how the table is displayed, open the Customize table window by clicking the Settings. button.

See also

Event log

Configuring event table display

Filtering email traffic processing events

Filtering system events

Viewing information about email traffic processing events

System event types

Exporting the event log

Configuring the event log

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