PRTG Manual: System Administration—User Accounts
To open the system administration, select Setup | System Administration from the main menu bar. Select the various tabs to change the different settings.
System Administration Bar
You can define the following aspects of your PRTG system setup:
- System Administration—User Interface
- System Administration—Monitoring
- System Administration—Notification Delivery
- System Administration—Core & Probes
- System Administration—Cluster
- System Administration—User Accounts
- System Administration—User Groups
- System Administration—Administrative Tools
PRTG administrator users can change all user account settings and add new users.
If you use PRTG on premises and open the system administration page from another 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.
The User Accounts tab shows a list of all user accounts that exist on this PRTG server. The Users table shows various types of information about each user at a glance.
- Object: The name of the user account. Click it to open the User Account Settings.
- Type: The account type, for example, PRTG Administrator user or Read-Only User
- Email: The Primary Email Address of this user account
- Primary Group: The Primary Group of this user account. Click it to open this user group's settings.
- Group Memberships: All user groups that contain this user account
- Active/Paused: The status of this user account
For more information, see also section Working with Table Lists.
You have several options to manage user accounts and groups on this page:
- To change a user's settings, select it from the list by clicking the username. The available setting options are the same as shown in the My Account settings of the currently logged in user (plus some account control options).
- To add a new user to PRTG on premises, hover over
and select Add User from the menu. The options are the same as for existing users (with slight differences). - To add a new user to PRTG hosted by Paessler, click the Invite User button. The options are almost the same as for existing users, but the initial login password is generated automatically. The new user can change it later. Click Send Invite to save your settings and to send the invitation per email to the defined Primary Email Address.
- To batch-add several users at once in a simple way, hover over and select Add Multiple Users from the menu. In the dialog box that appears, select an existing user group from the dropdown menu and enter or paste a list of email addresses. They can be separated by a space, comma, semicolon, or a new line. Click the OK button to confirm. For each address, PRTG creates a new local user account within the selected user group, carrying the email address as value for Login Name, Username, and Email Address. A new password is automatically generated and sent to the email address.
- To add a new user group to PRTG on premises, hover over and select Add User Group from the menu. The options are the same as for existing groups (with slight differences).
- To add a new user group to PRTG hosted by Paessler, hover over the Add User Group button.
- Access rights in PRTG are given via user groups. Make sure a user account is member of the correct user group and give access to this group in your device tree object's settings.
Predefined objects cannot be deleted.
This documentation refers to the PRTG System Administrator user accessing the PRTG web interface on a master node. If you use other user accounts, interfaces, or 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.
User Account |
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Login Name |
Enter the login name for the user.
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Display Name |
Enter a name that the user recognizes. It is not used for login purposes. |
Primary Email Address |
Enter the user's email address.
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Password |
Define the user password. For security reasons, the account settings page does not contain the password. Choose between:
If you choose to specify a new password, enter the old password and then the new password twice.
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Passhash |
Click Show passhash to display the passhash for the selected user. You need the passhash of a user if you use the PRTG Application Programming Interface (API). This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here.
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This option is not available in PRTG hosted by Paessler.API Access |
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API Username |
Shows the username of the current user account. You need a username if you use the PRTG Application Programming Interface (API). This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here. |
API Passhash |
Click Show passhash to display the passhash for the selected user. You need the passhash of a user if you use the PRTG Application Programming Interface (API). This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here. |
Reset API Passhash |
Click Generate new passhash to reset the passhash of the current user. |
Account Control |
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Account Type |
This setting is only visible to administrator users. However, it does not show if the user who's account you want to modify is a member of a group with administrative rights. Define the account type for the current user:
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Acknowledge Alarms |
This setting is only visible if Read-only user is enabled above. Acknowledging an alarm is an action that requires write access rights. However, you can explicitly allow this action to read-only users. If enabled, they still do not have write access, but may acknowledge alarms. Choose between:
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Password Changes |
Decide if you want the user to be able to change their account's password or not. If you allow the user to change the password, this option is available in the My Account settings of the respective user. Choose between:
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Primary Group |
This setting is available only for administrator users. Select the primary group for the current user. Every user has to be member of a primary group to make sure there is no user without group membership. Membership in other user groups is optional. For user experience, there is no difference between the primary and other user groups.
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Status |
This setting is only shown for administrator users. Define the status of the current user:
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Last Login |
Shows the time stamp of the user's last login. This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here. |
User Groups |
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Member of |
Shows the groups the current user is member of. Access rights to the device tree are defined on group level. This setting is shown for your information only and cannot be changed here. |
Web Interface |
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Auto Refresh |
Define if you want PRTG to reload web pages automatically for the current user:
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Auto Refresh Interval (Sec.) |
This setting is only relevant if you enable auto refresh above. Enter the number of seconds that PRTG waits between two refreshes. We recommend that you use 30 seconds or more. Minimum value is 20 seconds.
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Play Audible Alarms |
Define when PRTG plays an audible alarm on web pages whenever there are new alarms:
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Homepage URL |
Define the user's default page, which is loaded after logging in or clicking on the Home button in the main menu. |
Timezone |
Define the time zone for the current user. Depending on the time zone you select here, PRTG shows the current user's local time zone in all data tables and graph legends.
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Date Format |
Define the date format for the current user.
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Color Mode |
Select a color mode for your web interface. |
Ticket System |
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Email Notifications |
Define if you want to get emails from the ticket system:
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In the Notification Contacts tab, you can define recipients for each user account. Recipients can be email addresses, phone numbers, or push devices (iOS and Android devices with the corresponding PRTG mobile app).
On the Comments tab, you can enter free text for each object. You can use this function for documentation purposes or to leave information for other users.
Save your settings. If you change tabs or use the main menu, all changes to the settings are lost.
On the History tab, all changes in the settings of an object are logged with a time stamp, the name of the PRTG user who made the change, and a message. The history log retains the last 100 entries.
Save your settings. If you leave the current page, all changes to the settings are lost.
Knowledge Base: Which audible notifications are available in the PRTG web interface and in PRTG Desktop?
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There are some settings that you must make in the PRTG Administration Tool, available as native Windows application. For more details, see the sections: |
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