PRTG Network Monitor User Manual

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7.11.17 Chrome Desktop Notifications

While you are logged in to the PRTG web interface with your Chrome browser, PRTG can use it to show notifications on your desktop whenever there are new alarms in your monitoring.

Desktop notifications will be shown (by default, in the lower right corner of your desktop) whenever there are new alarms after a page refresh. The notification will display the number of new alarms and the current number of each sensor status. Click on X to close the notification.

Example of a Chrome Desktop Notific ation

In Chrome's default configuration, you have to initially allow those notifications for each installation/profile of Google Chrome. To do so, in the PRTG web interface, please click on

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, then click on Chrome Deskt op Not ificat ions.

Chrome Desktop Notific ations in Setup

Chrome Desktop Notifications Settings

On the settings page, you see one of the following status messages.

St at us: Click but t on below t o enable Deskt op Not ificat ions

§ Click on the Enable Chrome Deskt op Not ificat ions button to add your PRTG URL to

Chrome's list of allowed sites for desktop notifications.

§ On top of your Chrome browser window a message will appear, asking you to allow desktop notifications. Click on Allow to add the web interface's URL to the allowed sites.

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Clic k on 'Allow' to enable Chrome Desktop Notific ations

St at us: Sorry , Deskt op Not ificat ions cannot be enabled

§ Desktop Notifications are explicitly blocked for the PRTG web interface's URL in the Chrome

options. Please see Notifications Settings in Google Chrome

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Deskt op Not ificat ions enabled

§ Chrome Desktop Notifications are successfully activated. In order to disable them, please

see Notifications Settings in Google Chrome

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Notifications Settings in Google Chrome

To disallow or re-allow your web interface's URL for desktop notifications, please edit your

Chrome browser's options:

Choose Opt ions | Under t he Hood, in the Privacy section, click on the button Cont ent

set t ings.... In the Not ificat ions section, change settings corresponding to your needs. For example, click on Manage except ions... and remove the URL of your PRTG web interface to disable the feature. Or remove a blocked URL to re-enable the feature again.

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