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Create automation email notify when AP is Down

Confirmed 7/20/2026

Problem

How to create automation email notify when AP is Down

Environment

FortiGate

FortiOS version

All versions

Solution

Using Automation in FortiGate you can create many conditions which will implement a pre-defined action based on the trigger. 

One of the use cases is to create a trigger to notify the admin per Email when an AP is down. 

To accomplish this the following steps must be followed:  Create an automation stitch and give it a name  Action execution: Parallel 

Create a trigger and give it a name  Trigger type: FortiOS Event Log  Event: "Physical AP leave" or Event ID 43552 

The default Action Email Notification can be choosen  Under "Email Notification" the reciepent Email must be added 

As a last step the configured trigger and action should be added to the intended Automation stitch

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