<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Account Settings—Notification Contacts

To open the account settings of the user, select Setup | Account Settings from the main menu bar. Select the various tabs to change the different settings.

Account Settings Tabs

Account Settings Tabs

You can define the following aspects of your account settings:

In the Notification Contacts settings, you can define and change the notification contacts of the user account.

Notification contacts are unique for each user account. That is, every user can individually define how they want to be notified by PRTG. Recipients of notifications are email addresses, phone numbers, push devices (with PRTG for Android or PRTG for iOS), and users of certain instant messaging services.

The notification methods Send Email, Send SMS/Pager Message, or Send Push Notification let you define a user who receives notifications at all their active notification contacts. If you select a user group, PRTG sends the notifications to all active notification contacts of all users that are in the group. To exclude defined notification contacts from notification delivery, you can use the pause feature to deactivate them.

If you use PRTG on premises and open the system administration page from a different administration page, PRTG asks you to enter your credentials again for security reasons if 15 minutes (900 seconds) have passed since your last credential-based login. A dialog box appears. Enter your Login Name and Password for PRTG in the corresponding fields and confirm to continue.

Note

This section describes one of four steps to set up the notification system. To complete your notification setup, go through all of the following steps:

  1. Check and set up the Notification Delivery settings to define how and to which recipient PRTG sends messages.
    For more information, see section System Administration—Notification Delivery.
  2. Check and set up Notification Contacts for users so that you can define them as recipients of notifications.
    For more information, see section Account Settings—Notification Contacts.
  3. Check and set up Notification Templates to define the notification methods and their content.
    For more information, see section Account Settings—Notification Templates.
    icon-i-round-blueYou can also check or edit notification templates via the Notification Triggers tab. For more information, see section Sensor Notification Triggers Settings.
  4. Check and set up Notification Triggers for objects to define when notification messages are sent.
    For more information, see section Sensor Notification Triggers Settings.

icon-i-round-blueWe recommend that you always set up at least two notifications with different delivery methods for a notification trigger, for example, one email notification and one SMS notification. If delivery via email fails (because of an email server failure or other reasons), PRTG can still notify you via your smartphone. Set your latency setting to a state trigger and a notification via a different delivery method than the one for the first trigger. Or set up a second trigger with a different notification for the corresponding object.

icon-square-cyanFor more information, see section Notifications.

Notification Contacts Overview

Click the Notification Contacts tab to show a list of all notification contacts of the user account. Using the quick action buttons, you can do the following:

  • Pause: Pause this notification contact. If a notification contact is paused, PRTG does not send any messages to this contact when a notification for this user is triggered.
  • Edit: Open the settings of this notification contact and change its description and recipient.
    icon-i-round-blueThis is not possible for predefined notification contacts, for example, the primary email address. You can change the primary email address under Account Settings—My Account.
  • Delete: Delete this notification contact.
    icon-i-round-blueThis is not possible for predefined notification contacts, for example, the primary email address.

Notification Contacts Settings

Hover over plus_button and select Add Email Contact or Add SMS Contact to add a new notification contact, or click the Edit button of a notification contact to edit it. A dialog box appears where you can enter the contact settings.

icon-i-round-bluePRTG automatically adds push contacts for the corresponding user when you install a PRTG mobile app on your smartphone or tablet, connect to PRTG, and activate push notifications. You cannot manually add push contacts. If your mobile device actively rejects push notifications for a push contact, for example, because you deactivated push on the target device or reset it, PRTG automatically pauses this contact. The affected user account receives a ToDo ticket in this case.

Add New / Edit Notification Contact

Description

Enter a meaningful name for the notification contact, for example, SMS to Admin Mobile or similar.

Recipient

Enter a valid email address for the contact type Email. You can add an SMS contact by entering a valid phone number. The format of the phone number depends on the SMS provider. You can use a plus sign "+" or "00", followed by country code and number. For example, +1555012345 or 001555012345.

icon-i-round-redEnsure that the number format meets the requirements of your SMS provider or the hardware that you use in combination with an application programming interface (API) call. Sometimes a preceded plus sign is not required. A wrong format might result in undelivered messages.

icon-square-cyanFor the contact type Push, this field shows a unique token that you cannot change here. This token is needed to send push notifications through the cloud. For details, see the Knowledge Base: How can I use push notifications with PRTG?

Contact Type

Shows the type of contact, either Email, SMS, or Push. This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here.

If you want to use a different contact type, create a new contact with Add Email Contact or Add SMS Contact, or activate push notifications in your PRTG for iOS or Android app.

Click the OK button to save your settings, or click Cancel to close the dialog box without changes to your configuration.

icon-i-round-blueA cloud contact is automatically added when you install the PRTG app on your smartphone, connect to PRTG, and enable push notifications.

More

icon-square-blueKNOWLEDGE BASE

How can I use push notifications with PRTG?

Others

There are some settings that you must make in the PRTG Administration Tool. For more details, see the sections: