Users Guide

Alarms | Alarms, Events, and Automation
294 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
3 Enable the audible alerts for new alarms option.
This activates the sound field.
4 Select a sound to plays.
5 Click the play button to preview the selected sound.
By default, the OpenManage Network Manager product ships with four standard alert sounds:
Alert, Bell, Chord, and Ding. See
Adding Custom MP3 Sounds to add custom sounds.
6 Click Apply.
This Alarms portlet instance now has Audible Alerts enabled.
Adding Custom MP3 Sounds
Add custom MP3 sounds as follows.
1 Go to the Control Panel.
2 Click the Documents and Media section.
3 Click the Add button and then Select Basic Document.
4 Click Choose File and pick an MP3 file to upload from the File section.
Because this interface lets you add any type of media, no file validation occurs. However,
Audible Alerts only display audio/MP3 mime-types.
5 Give the new MP3 sound a short title.
For example, if you upload cowsound.mp3, call it Cow Sound.
6 Click Publish.
7 Go back to the Alarms portlet.
8 Click the Settings (wrench) tool.
Verify that there is a new sound to select.