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Contact creation form will be displayed.

This form is composed of tabs, corresponding to categories of properties :

• Generic

• Direct Configuration

• Data

The left menu give to Administrators the ability to :

• Validate the new contact
• Cancel the action
• Delete the contact

Generic

Generic properties contains the minimum properties requiered to create an Contact :

• Name
  

  • the name of the Contact

  • this field is requiered required

• Display name
  • the name that will be displayed in the visualization interface and in notifications
• Password
  • the Password that the user will use to connect to the visualization interface
  • the password is hidden when editing the contact
• Email
  • email address of the contact, used to notify him
• Phone
  
  • phone of the contact, used to notify by pager for example

• Contact Templates to inherit
  • list of templates the contact should inherit from
  • templates name are suggested when starting to fill the field
• Contact groups
  • List of contact groups the contact should be in
  • more than one contact groups can be selected
• Can submit command
  • option used to determine if user will be able to schedule a new check through the visualization interface

• Expert mode
  • option used to determine if the user will be able to see the expert mode in the visualization interface
• Is a monitoring Administrator
  • option used to give the user Administrators rights, ie UI Configuration Access
• Notification ways
  • list of notification ways used to notify the contact (by email, by pager etc.)