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:

• You can edit the default Web Alarm action through the Action Library (Admin > Action Library). Select the Default Web Alarm, then click Edit.

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 current sound being played. Dismissing the web alarm does not stop the sound for future occurrences of the Web Alarm.

To disable Web Alarms:

• Click Admin > Preferences. The Admin Preferences dialog appears.
• Clear the Enable web alarms option.

Note: 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.Web.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 Copying a device Moving a device Deleting a device Cloning a device Polling overview Dependencies overview Using Acknowledgements Accessing a remote desktop to view and manage devices Configuring multiple devices with the Bulk Field Change feature