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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.

Provide awareness to specific Roles or all users—display notifications on the Dashboard and in the Notifications area
Seamlessly enable Maintenance Mode for Monitor Views to mute alerts and manage planned downtime
Schedule, target, and format notifications with advanced options

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.

Add User Notification button in the Nodinite Web Client.

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.

Select the appropriate severity level for your User Notification.

OK
Information
Warning
Error
Critical - This level will force the bell to blink also in the 'Notifications' area
Maintenance ^{New 6.0} - Put selected Monitor Views into Maintenance Mode

Promoted on dashboard

When checked, the User Notification is pinned on the Dashboard otherwise it is only available in the general notifications area.

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.

Here's an example with a Time Interval Configuration to make the User Notification recurring.

Roles

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

Click Edit to manage which Roles can see this User Notification.

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

Select the Roles that should receive this User Notification.

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.

Select all Monitor Views for the User Notification.

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

Select specific Monitor Views for the Maintenance Window.

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.

Option to use the User Notification as a Maintenance Window.

Mute Alerts (Alarm Plugins in Monitor Views)
Disable Auto Healing on Resources

Next, review the scope for the Maintenance Window:

Start time
End time
Monitor Views - All, or A subset
Important
You must specify All or at least one Monitor View
Recurrence

Next Step

User Notifications Overview
What is a User Notification?

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