What sounds can I play in case of an alarm (for example, if a sensor is "Down" or in a "Warning" status)?
How can I change the default sound that I hear in my browser when viewing the PRTG web interface, PRTG Desktop, or the Enterprise Console?
What sounds can I play in case of an alarm (for example, if a sensor is "Down" or in a "Warning" status)?
How can I change the default sound that I hear in my browser when viewing the PRTG web interface, PRTG Desktop, or the Enterprise Console?
alarm alerts audio enterprise-console notifications prtg prtg-desktop sound web-interface
Created on Oct 12, 2011 11:08:48 AM by
Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]
Last change on May 9, 2019 5:28:17 AM by
Maike Guba [Paessler Support]
11 Replies
This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 19 or later
There are several possibilities to play a sound when there is something going on in your network that needs your attention:
Sounds in the web interface are embedded using HTML 5 and supported by current browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
In the User Account Settings of a PRTG user account you can specify Audible Alarms. You can set this to either play on dashboard pages only, or on all pages.
When logging in to the PRTG web interface with this user account, you will hear a default sound in your browser after each page refresh whenever there is at least one new sensor shown in your Alarms list.
You can create sounds within maps for specific objects. While viewing this map, an alarm sound will be played in your browser if this object is in an alarm state.
In the Maps Designer, in the Properties selection, open the Status Icons section and select Status and Audible Alert (If Alarms > 0) from the list. Apply this object to an item on your map (drag and drop it on the item), and you're done.
Using HTML 5, PRTG embeds the sound files beep.ogg and beep.mp3 from the /webroot/sounds sub-folder of your PRTG program directory (in /website/sounds before PRTG version 13.2.3). In order to change the default sound you can replace these files by your custom ones.
Note: When using a cluster installation, please replace the files on all cluster nodes.
You can use sound notifications in PRTG Desktop if you want to be alerted when sensors change to a Down or Warning status, or when there are no more sensors in a Down or Warning status.
Important: To use any alerting functionalities, you must first enable the PRTG Desktop tray icon. If the tray icon is not shown, no alerting from PRTG Desktop is available.
Set a notification sound in the Desktop Notification Settings. You can choose from a small set of sounds that come with PRTG Desktop, or you use a custom sound. See the PRTG Desktop Manual for more information.
Note: The sound file is played only on the computer running PRTG Desktop.
Important notice: The Enterprise Console (EC) is unsupported and deprecated as of PRTG 19.4.53. As of PRTG 19.4.54, the EC installer is removed from PRTG.
We strongly recommend that you switch to PRTG Desktop, our new alternative interface that you can use to connect to multiple PRTG servers to manage your entire network.
For information on how to uninstall the EC, see How to uninstall the PRTG Enterprise Console from the PRTG Server.
The Enterprise Console can play sounds differentiated for new alarms, new log entries, and new ToDos. You can simply specify the behavior as well as a custom sound in the Enterprise Console Options.
Created on Oct 12, 2011 11:41:33 AM by
Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]
Last change on Feb 18, 2021 10:29:20 AM by
Maike Guba [Paessler Support]
It would be great to be able to use sounds from elsewhere on your mobile device in PRTG as the default tones are not aggressive enough to wake me
Is it possible in the enterprise console to set one sound for when a sensor is in error, and one for when it is back up? It is slightly annoying to hear a sound that you have set to alert you that something bad has happened every time you fix the problem and the device is working again.
Hello shogan,
Unfortunately this is not possible at present, I'm sorry.
Best regards,
Sebastian
Hello!
I change MP3 and ogg files to my own, but still hear old sounds, i need to restart something?
Hi Vasiliy,
Do you refer to PRTG Desktop or the PRTG Enterprise Console?
What format do you use now and how long and what size does the new file have?
Best regards,
Sebastian
I opened my map via browser, same with PRTG, i working only via web-interface. About the files: beep.mp3 - 72,5 KB beep.ogg - 106 KB
Hello Vasiliy,
You can replace the sound files under /webroot/sounds. When using a cluster installation, please replace the files on all cluster nodes.
A restart of the PRTG Core Server afterwards might help as well as clearing the browser cache.
Best regards,
Sebastian
Have a look here https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/79674-can-we-have-the-ability-to-set-audio-notifications-when-sensors-go-down-up or here: https://www.it-admins.com/using-powershell-for-text-to-speech/ - it's pretty much the same content.
Eventually this talks about on how to engage the Text-To-Speech engine of Windows for notifications.
My experience with this - having a talking NOC TV in the IT rooms for quite a while now:
Hope this helps :-) in the end all of this is just my personal experience... summarized it means:
Regards
Florian Rossmark
[[htttps://www.it-admins.com|www.it-admins.com]]
Guys, i was surprised but update to 19.2.50.2842+ rewrite my custom MP3! So can i save it permanently or i must restore it? It's ok, but let me know!
Hi there,
Usually this file won't be overwritten, but if updates affects those files, it may happen that they will get overwritten.
Kind regards,
Birk Guttmann, Tech Support Team
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