In the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), you can send a message to any device. The message will be displayed to the user immediately. Messages to devices are enabled and configured under UMS Administration > Global Configuration > Messages to Devices; see Messages to Devices. 

Messages to IGEL OS 12 devices can also be sent via the UMS Web App, see Sending a Message to Devices via the IGEL UMS Web App.

Menu path: UMS Console > Devices > [Name of the device / device directory] > Other Commands > Send Message


You can launch the editor via the context menu in the Device node or via the main menu under Devices > Other Commands > Send Message.

Formatted messages are displayed on IGEL OS 11 devices. On IGEL OS 12 devices, messages will be automatically displayed without formatting since only plain text messages are currently supported.


Under Select Template, you can choose from various format templates. These include preset templates and those that you created under UMS Administration > Global Configuration > Messages to Devices:

  • {01 template: Info}: For informative texts, with an information symbol
  • {02 template: Warning}: For warning texts, with an attention symbol
  • {03 template: Error}: For error messages, with an error symbol
  • {04 template: Custom Icon}: Freely configurable message with its own symbol (see below)
  • {05 template: Alert}: Red alarm message, with an information symbol and a table with a moving bell symbol
  • {06 template: Blue}: Blue message window, with an IGEL symbol
  • ... own templates ...

Own Icon

In order to distribute your own icon from the UMS, select a PNG file which should not be bigger than 4 kB.

Users who have the right to send messages can view all saved templates and change them for an immediate message. However, these changes will not be saved.

In order to save templates, the user will need to write rights on the Messages to Devices node.

In order to format the text, you can either use the integrated toolbar or you can create HTML snippets using an expert tool and insert them using copy and paste.


A message may have up to 7,000 characters including the formatting elements.