Prtg Monitor

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Asone of the leading data center operators in the Netherlands, All IT Rooms plans, builds, and operates data centers for customers of all industries. Since 2017, All IT Rooms have relied on PRTG as the basis for its self-developed DCIM solution All-BaaS. PRTG monitors all components of the data center infrastructure, from cooling systems to uninterruptible power supplies, generators, security systems, and more.

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Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is a proprietary network monitoring software by Paessler GmbH. It is best suited for small & medium IT infrastructures and offers extensive features for monitoring OT & IoT environments as well. The powerful on-premises monitoring tool runs on Windows servers and is easily scalable.

SMS group GmbH provides production plants for the steel industry worldwide that rely on modern control technology as well as automation systems with corresponding real-time networks. The company uses PRTG to ensure performance and reliability during the construction, testing, and start-up of metallurgical plants (steel production plants), and thereby optimizes the quality of its production lines.

With PRTG, system administrators can keep an eye on the health and performance of their network devices, traffic, applications, services, and much more, to make sure that their IT and business processes run smoothly at all times.

If there is an issue in the IT infrastructure, PRTG alerts the responsible person or team immediately via customizable notifications so that they can react quickly before a failure causes more severe problems.

Commercial editions of PRTG differ in license scope and pricing depending on the PRTG product you choose. For PRTG Network Monitor, there are annual subscriptions from 500 up to 10,000 sensors. With PRTG Hosted Monitor, you can choose from flexible monthly, annual, and multi-year subscription plans for more scalability. PRTG Enterprise Monitor offers annual subscription licenses for an unlimited number of servers, based on the number of sensors in use.

PRTG is an all-in-one monitoring solution, which means that no matter which product or license size you choose, you're able to set up comprehensive monitoring for your entire IT infrastructure. With PRTG, you get the full package:

To keep an eye on the entire IT environment, there are specialized IT monitoring tools that constantly collect, log, and analyze data about the health, availability, and performance of all hardware and software in the respective network. This includes, for example:

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Ensure your computer systems are running smoothly, avoid outages, and increase the efficiency of your network by monitoring bandwidth and resource consumption with Paessler PRTG network monitoring tools.

Setup is quick and easy in just minutes with the auto-discovery of our network meter. The preconfigured device templates select the appropriate sensor settings for servers, applications, and network devices. You can also manually configure PRTG, of course.

With the freeware edition of PRTG, you can get started with network monitoring in a matter of minutes. Our auto-discovery function detects all the devices within a given IP address range and automatically incorporates them into your monitoring environment.

Network monitoring refers to the monitoring of an entire network environment. Its goal is to allow sysadmins to work in a better, quicker, and more efficient manner. Network monitoring focuses on parameters such as bandwidth consumption and the availability of network devices.

Some of the monitored devices include the local and Internet-based systems in an IT environment, such as databases, applications, clouds, servers, and network infrastructures. Network monitoring allows admins to ensure their networks run smoothly, effectively, and free of errors.

Yes, you can. You get to choose which devices are monitored by PRTG. You also get to define the scope of your monitoring. For example, you can choose to only monitor the CPU, free disk space, or certain ports of a specific device.

Yes. PRTG uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), performance counters, and SNMP to monitor your Windows Servers, operating system, processes, and services. You can monitor the following Windows parameters, for example:

I am looking to monitor our software maintenance contract expiration dates in PRTG. Is there a way to set up some type of sensor that would monitor a date, similar to the SSL "Days to Expiration" channel? Maybe it would read a text file of some sort? Or, if someone has some other ideas. Maybe i'm overlooking something simple. Thansk!

Most likely you have added this EXE sensor as an EXEXML sensor.

The sensor.exe needs to be copied to the '\Custom Sensors\EXE' folder of your PRTG installation and added as an 'Standard EXE/Script Sensor'

Please also see this part of the manual.

So really monitor and graph:- Total Number of clients connected- Number of clients connected to each AP- Number of clients connected to each SSID, each SSID per AP would be great too- Bandwidth usage at both the AP and SSID levels

I downloaded and installed a solution, link below, from the PRTG forums last week. At quick glance though it looks a little clunky and not sure if it's going to give me everything that I need. When I say quick glance I spent a few hours getting it up and running. Then another few hours making and installing oilib's.

To display different graphs/channels in one view, we recommend to use a Map. With the Maps feature you can create web pages with up-to-the-minute monitoring status information in a customizable layout. Furthermore, as the other Knowledge Base article describes, the best way to monitor the bandwidth is to use the SNMP Traffic Sensor. For more values like " Number of clients connected" I recommend to use a SNMP Custom Sensor / SNMP Custom Advance Sensor / SNMP Library Sensor. With these Sensors you are able to monitor manufacturer specific OIDs. Therefore, if the manufacturer provides an appropriate OID, PRTG can monitor it.

Hi, this is not so much a question, but a solution to a problem I encountered when using PRTG. I'm a home user, and though this problem really applies to anyone running a server for the first time, it applied in my case when trying to access the web interface of PRTG.

After resetting my router, my registered domain, a private site with an SSL, could no longer reach my PRTG server PRTG. Let's call it "myprtgsite.net" At first I tried contacting my web hosting provider, and I struggled for days with them, but they couldn't help. Along the way I realized I could still connect to the site by entering my computer name along with the port number. So "MyPC:443" worked for example. Finally, I could connect.

However, my SSL was gone when I did this, and I didn't like that workaround anyway. I had paid for the domain name with the expectation that it would work.Finally, I reached someone at the web hosting company who recommended I call my ISP, so I did.

This turned out to be the right decision. Verizon, my hosting provider, has SON, or "self organizing network" turned on by default. They suggested turning it off, and wallah! My website name worked again. After a week, the problem was solved. "myprtgsite.net" didn't lead to oblivion anymore.

Being more of a networker in training than most of you guys, I'm sure, I don't quite understand how the SON feature interfered with the DNS server and blocked the URL from connecting. The lady at Verizon explained that the feature could be a little buggy and needed updating. Well, until it does, I know I'm going nowhere near it. But does anyone have a better answer, as to why exactly the SON feature blocked my server from being accessed by my domain name? Thanks!

Thank you for that information, usually we also recommend to contact the provider for these kind of issues. From the PRTG perspective we don't have more details on why this could be blocking that port. It really doesn't look like that feature is for that purpose.

Thanks for the reply. I did some reading and it appears SON started out as an exclusive feature just for LTE networks and mobile phones. But Verizon Fios has been the pioneer in bringing it to home Wi-Fi networks, with mixed results as we can see. I'm no expert so I can't say how it influences the DNS server though, which is where it blocked my PRTG access (at least through my domain name).

Hi, I've set up PRTG Network Monitor once before a year ago and now I'm trying to set it up a second time and I'm a little rusty. So here's the problem, I tried to set up email notifications for two sensors that I set up. I set two triggers and simulated error status, and saw in the log, "Status sending Email: OK (Sensor/Source/ID: 2002/2002/1)", but never received an email. I then went to Setup > Account Setup > Notifications and clicked "Test" for "Email to Admin", and got a message in the log that simply said "Status sending Email: OK", but I never received an email either.

So, then I changed SMTP servers (I was using smtpout.secureserver.net), and put in smtp-mail.outlook.com for an outlook.com address I have. I got an "unusual sign-in activity" email from Microsoft stating that an unknown IP address was trying to use my account and "was this me?" which I confirmed, so I must've authenticated correctly. I had the FROM address my outlook.com address just in case it wouldn't send any emails from non-outlook.com email addresses and sent it to another email address, but never received any emails after repeating the two tests I listed above.

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