PRTG Manual: Account Settings—Schedules
To open the account settings of the user, select Setup | Account Settings from the main menu bar. Select the various tabs to change the different settings.
Account Settings Tabs
You can define the following aspects of your account settings:
- Account Settings—My Account
- Account Settings—Notification Templates
- Account Settings—Notification Contacts
- Account Settings—Schedules
In the schedule settings, you can define or change schedules for the user account. You can use schedules to pause monitoring and notifications for certain time periods with the period lists option. Also you can activate monitoring and notifications at certain times with the time table option. You can also use schedules to define the time periods that are covered when creating reports.
If you use PRTG on premises and open the system administration page from a different administration page, PRTG asks you to enter your credentials again for security reasons if 15 minutes (900 seconds) have passed since your last credential-based login. A dialog box appears. Enter your Login Name and Password for PRTG in the corresponding fields and confirm to continue.
Schedules Settings
This documentation refers to an administrator accessing the PRTG web interface on a master node. If you use other user accounts, interfaces, or failover nodes, you might not see all of the options in the way described here. If you use a cluster installation, note that failover nodes are read-only by default.
When a user with administrative rights creates a new object, only other users with administrative rights can view or edit the new object by default. When a read/write user creates a new object, all members of the read/write user's primary group can view and edit the new object as well. This behavior applies to libraries, maps, reports, notification templates, and schedules.
For more information, see section Access Rights Management.
Click the Schedules tab to show a list of all schedules. Using the Edit button, you can perform the following actions:
- Used by: Show a list of objects using this schedule.
- Delete: Delete this schedule (not possible for predefined schedules).
- Settings: Show the settings of the selected schedule.
See also section Working with Table Lists. Additionally, the multi-edit functionality is available. This enables you to change properties of several objects simultaneously via bulk changes. For more information, see section Multi-Edit.
Hover over 
and select Add Schedule or click the name of a schedule to edit it.
Edit Schedule Time Table
Setting |
Description |
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Schedule Name |
Enter a meaningful name for the schedule that describes the defined time spans or their purpose. |
Tags |
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
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Edit Mode |
Select how you want to define a schedule:
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Time Table (active time slots) |
This selection is only visible if you enable Use weekday/hour time table above. Define the schedule. It is used for monitoring objects, reporting, and notifications. You can set time spans with a precision of one full hour by adding check marks. If a box is checked, it means the object is active during this hour. If unchecked, the object is paused during this hour. You can set check marks individually, or change complete ranges for certain days of the week or time spans.
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Period List (inactive time slots) |
This field is only visible if you enable Use list of period definitions above. Define the date and time ranges in which the objects that use this schedule are inactive (for example, paused). During other times, the objects are active. Enter the ranges in this format:
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Schedules use the time zone of the PRTG core server system. This might be different from other time displays in PRTG that are saved in UTC.
- If you define a schedule with the Time Table option in the schedule settings, the time to which the schedule applies is converted to the time zone of your user account. This means that the schedule applies according to the time that your user account shows.
- If you use the Period List option, PRTG does not adjust the schedule to the time zone of your user account. The schedule applies according to the time on your PRTG core server system in this case. Because of this, you encounter time shifts for schedules if there are changes to the time zone on the server or in case of different daylight saving and standard time changes.
Access Rights
Setting |
Description |
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User Group Access |
Define the user groups that have access to the object. You see a table with user groups and group access rights. The table contains all user groups in your setup. For each user group, you can choose from the following group access rights:
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Click OK to save your settings, or click Cancel to close the dialog box without changes to your configuration.
Schedules Settings—Period Definition Syntax
Define one or more periods of time during which the object using this schedule are inactive. In each line, enter one range in the format ww:hh:mm-ww:hh:mm: weekday, hour, minute.
- Possible values for ww: mo, tu, we, th, fr, sa, su.
- Possible values for hh: Enter the hour in 24-hour format (no A.M./P.M. allowed), for example, a number between 00 and 23.
- Possible values for mm: Enter the minute, for example, a number between 00 and 59.
This example shows a schedule that pauses an object during the weekend as well as on Wednesday evenings. fr:19:30-mo:06:05 Any object using this schedule is paused from Friday, 7:30 P.M. to Monday, 6:05 A.M. as well as on Wednesday from 6:45 P.M. to 11 P.M. It is active during the other times. |
For information about the comments and history tabs, see section Object Settings.
There are some settings that you must make in the PRTG Administration Tool. For more details, see the sections: |
