Understanding Web Alarms

A Web Alarm is an action type that plays a sound over the web interface when a device state change occurs. All users logged in via the web interface will see these alarms. The type is configured in the Actions Library, and can be associated to any device or monitor like any other action.

Managing a Web Alarm action:

Managing a Web Alarm:

When a web alarm alert fires, a dialog appears in the web interface. This dialog allows you to dismiss or mute the alarms that have been fired. Click the Dismiss or Dismiss All buttons to stop the alarm that is currently sounding. Dismissing the web alarm does not stop the sound for future occurrences of the Web Alarm.

To disable Web Alarms:

Important: For Web Alarms to work properly, your browser must support embedded sound files.

Note: If there are web alarms in the list with different sounds configured for each, the oldest web alarm's sound takes priority. To hear a new or different sound for a web alarm, dismiss the previous web alarm from the list.

Note: To associate a sound file with an Alarm, the sound file must be placed in the \Program Files\Ipswitch\WhatsUp\HTML\Nm.UI\WebSounds directory.

You can double-click an entry in this dialog to view the device Device Status report.

See Also

Learning about devices

Adding a single new device to WhatsUp Gold

Setting Advanced device discovery settings

Changing a device name

Changing a device IP address

Adding additional network interfaces to a device

Adding notes to a device

Using device types

Refreshing device details

Copying a device

Moving a device

Deleting a device

Cloning a device

Polling overview

Dependencies overview

Using Acknowledgments

Accessing a remote desktop to view and manage devices

Configuring multiple devices with the Bulk Field Change feature