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# 1 Global notifications

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#### Overview

Global notifications provide a way to display real-time issues directly on your current screen within Zabbix frontend.

Without global notifications, when working outside the *Problems* or *Dashboard* sections, you would not receive any information about current issues.
Global notifications ensure that this information is displayed, regardless of your current location within the Zabbix frontend.

Global notifications include both [displaying a message](#global-messages-displayed) and [playing a sound](sound).

::: noteimportant
The autoplay of sounds might be disabled (by default) in recent browser versions.
In such cases, you need to enable this setting manually.
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#### Configuration

Global notifications can be enabled per user in the **Frontend notifications** tab of [profile configuration](/manual/web_interface/user_profile).

![profile\_c.png](../../../../assets/en/manual/web_interface/profile_c.png){width="600"}

|Parameter|Description|
|--|--------|
|*Frontend notifications*|Mark the checkbox to enable global notifications.|
|*Message timeout*|Set the duration for which the message will be displayed. By default, messages remain on the screen for 60 seconds.<br>[Time suffixes](/manual/appendix/suffixes) are supported, for example: 30s, 5m, 2h, 1d.|
|*Play sound*|Set the duration for which the sound will be played.<br>**Once** - sound is played once and fully;<br>**10 seconds** - sound is repeated for 10 seconds;<br>**Message timeout** - sound is repeated while the message is visible.|
|*Trigger severity*|Set the trigger severities for which global notifications and sounds will be activated. You can also select sounds appropriate for various severities.<br>If no severity is marked, no messages will be displayed.<br>Additionally, recovery messages will only be displayed for marked severities. For instance, if *Recovery* and *Disaster* are marked, global notifications will be displayed for problems and recoveries of *Disaster* severity triggers.|
|*Show suppressed problems*|Mark the checkbox to display notifications for problems that would otherwise be suppressed (not shown) due to host maintenance.|

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##### Global messages displayed

As messages arrive, they are displayed in a floating section on the right-hand side.
You can freely reposition this section by dragging the section header.

![global\_messages.png](../../../../assets/en/manual/web_interface/global_messages.png)

For this section, several controls are available:

-   ![](../../../../assets/en/manual/about/message_button_snooze.png) **Snooze** button silences the currently active alarm sound;
-   ![](../../../../assets/en/manual/about/message_button_mute.png) **Mute/Unmute** button switches between playing and not playing the alarm sounds at all.

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