Hi Rod, You will be happy to hear the v7 makes managing notifications on many devices much easier. The method is still the same: you select all the devices you want to modify and right click "Add Alerts to Selected Devices". However the dialog allows you to add to all selected, change any that are currently on any or all of the devices. Remove any or all. Modify any or all. You can even copy one notification that is on one device to all that were selected. You can delete all notifications from all devices that have it too.
[This is done the same way that you change the read write permissions on a selection of files in explorer - you may have seen a checkbox that has a gray state (which means "some" in the selection have this property). We use this same method with notifications, we use "tri-state" checkboxes (on, off, on for some).] If you had 3 devices with some notifications on them: Device A Sound Notification Device B Sound Notification Mail Notification Device C Sound Notification If you selected them all, right clicked and selected "Add Alerts to Selected Devices" you would see a table that would contain 2 notifications Sound Notification Mail Notification Sound would have a check next to it (indicating it was on "all" devices selected) Mail would have a gray check next to it (indicating it was on "some" devices selected). If you unchecked Sound, it would be removed from all devices. If you picked on the gray Mail checkbox it would become checked normally, so Mail would get placed on all devices. If you picked it again it would uncheck, meaning it would be removed from all devices. Picking it again gets you back to the gray state again (meaning it is on some devices). V7 online help describes this well: NOTE: Alerts that have been added to any of the selected devices appear in the dialog box. There is a tri-state check box beside all alerts. � If the alert is assigned to ALL selected devices, the check box is selected and is white. � If the alert is assigned to SOME of the selected devices, the check box is selected and is gray. � You can toggle the check box through the different states by clicking on it and seeing the different states. � If you want to remove the alert from the selected devices, continue clicking the check box until the check mark is removed. � You can also assign the alert to all of the selected devices by clicking the check box until the check mark appears and the box is white. enjoy Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Carty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Recurring Notifications > You don't have to do this one device at a time, you can select a block > of them and replace all alerts at once (it does mean you have to redo > the ones that were originally there though). This is only a problem when > you have different notifications on different devices on one map. You > could manually move the different devices together that have the same > notifications, then select them all, but it's still not as nice as you > describe. Of course, I'm talking version 6.02, so maybe version 7 has it > and I don't know about it yet. > > Kristopher Czachor wrote: > > > > Rod, > > > > So let me understand what your saying. You're telling me I have to put > > in at least 3-4 additional notifications PER person PER system? Doesn't > > sound very user friendly to me when a simple checkbox option could > > easily do the trick. I'm sure other users of WUG would be interested in > > a feature such as this. Wouldn't you agree? > > > > IMHO, Ipswitch needs to flesh out their recurring notifications feature > > a little more and it will help their product immensely. > > > > still my 2 cents, > > Kris > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod Carty > > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Recurring Notifications > > > > No need to make a second node, just make a second notification on the > > same one, with the greater number of timeouts as desired. On duplicated > > notifications like this, turn off Auto Send Up on one or the other so > > you only get one Up notification. You can use the Device Identifier > > field to put in the extended outage memo, such as "Down for One Hour". > > > > "Philip A. Gruebele" wrote: > > > > > > This is simple. Set up a second node which points to the same IP > > > address and have that node alarm only after N timeouts, where N is > > > enough to make 1 hour... That way you can attach any notification you > > > want to get after the ping fails for 1 hour... > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Philip Gruebele > > > HPL Inc. > > > 2033 Gateway Place Suite 400 > > > San Jose, CA 95110 > > > (408)501-9270 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Rod C-- > > Enterprise Network Consulting > > Whitehorse, Yukon > > http://www.enc.yk.net/ > > http://www.geocities.com/rodcarty/ > > > > >> A)bort R)etry W)hip with wet noodle? << > > The preceding humor inserted by QuipSig > > http://www.enc.yk.net/quipsig/ > > 4,000 quip repertory! > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > -- > Rod C-- > Enterprise Network Consulting > Whitehorse, Yukon > http://www.enc.yk.net/ > http://www.geocities.com/rodcarty/ > > >> You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she >was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres << > The preceding humor inserted by QuipSig > http://www.enc.yk.net/quipsig/ > 4,000 quip repertory! > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
