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Add or manage User Notification

Easily create, schedule, and manage User Notifications in Nodinite to keep your users informed and your operations running smoothly. This guide empowers you to communicate planned maintenance, critical updates, and targeted messages to the right audience—ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

  • ✅ Target specific roles or all users – Display notifications on the Dashboard and in the Notifications area
  • ✅ Enable Maintenance Mode – Mute alerts and disable Auto Healing during planned downtime
  • ✅ Schedule recurring notifications – Configure publication dates and time intervals for recurring maintenance windows
  • ✅ Control alert suppression – Automatically suspend Alarm Plugins in selected Monitor Views

Tip

Inform end users about planned maintenance windows and other things they should need to know about. For conceptual information, see What is a User Notification?

Add User Notification

Click the 'Add User Notification' button to create a new User Notification.

You can also open an existing one from the User Notifications Overview. Both open the same editor:

User Notification editor with Title, Content, Type/severity, pin and Global options, start and end date, recurrence, Roles, and Monitor Views
The editor: notification details on the left, the Roles and Monitor Views it applies to on the right.

Title

The Title is mandatory and is the short text that should catch the attention of the intended target audience.

Content

The Content can be a larger text to inform the user about the details of the notifications. The text area is implemented using a WYSIWYG HTML editor and you can provide rich text formatting including images and more.

Type / Severity

You can provide different types of classifications for the User Notification.

Type/severity drop-down of the User Notification editor
The type sets the icon and color users see, and Maintenance turns on Maintenance Mode.

  • OK - General success or informational notifications
  • Information - Standard informational messages for users
  • Warning - Caution messages requiring attention
  • Error - Error notifications for critical issues
  • Critical - High-priority alerts with blinking notifications in the 'Notifications' area
  • Maintenance New 6.0 - Put selected Monitor Views into Maintenance Mode

In the editor this checkbox is labeled Pin to the top of the screen or the Dashboard:

  • When checked and the type is Error or Critical, the User Notification is pinned at the top of the screen on all pages.
  • When checked and the type is anything else, it is pinned at the top of the Dashboard only.
  • When unchecked, it is only visible in the notifications area (bell icon) in the top right corner of the screen.

Global (for all users)

When checked, the User Notification is visible for all users and you do not need to manage and limit the target audience (Roles).

Publication start date

The start time for when the User Notification is visible (Active) for the target audience.

Publication end date

The end time for when the User Notification is visible (Active) for the target audience.

Recurrence - Time Interval Configuration

You can specify a Time Interval Configuration if you want the User Notification to be recurring, for example a weekly maintenance window.

  • Only Time Interval Configurations with exactly one Time Interval can be selected.
  • The Time Interval must be 1 day or longer; with a shorter time span, the configuration is reset and the recurrence doesn't work.

Recurrence field with a selected Time Interval Configuration
Use Add New next to the field to create a suitable Time Interval Configuration.

Roles

If the User Notification is not Global, you can Edit the list of individual Roles who will see the User Notification.

Roles panel with the Edit button in the User Notification editor
Roles are only needed when the notification is not Global.

From the edit modal, manage the list of assigned Roles:

Modal for selecting the Roles that see the User Notification
Users get the notification through their Roles, including Roles granted by Windows AD Groups.

Monitor Views

You can narrow the scope of the User Notification to either All Monitor Views, or a specified set of Monitor Views.

  • All Monitor Views - When checked, associate this User Notification with all Monitor Views, regardless of which are selected above. This option also includes recently added Monitor Views created after this User Notification.

All Monitor Views checkbox in the Monitor Views panel
All Monitor Views also covers Monitor Views created later.

  • Specified Monitor Views - Click on the Edit button to include only the specified set of Monitor Views in the Maintenance Window.

Monitor Views panel with a selected set of Monitor Views
Pick only the Monitor Views affected by the planned work.

Maintenance Mode

Info

You can read more about what Maintenance Mode in Nodinite is in the What is a User Notification? guide.

To put Nodinite into Maintenance Mode, set the 'Type/Severity' option to Maintenance.

Type/severity drop-down with the Maintenance option selected
The Maintenance type turns the User Notification into a maintenance window.

Next, review the scope for the Maintenance Window:

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