I would like it for my PRTG installation to send me an email every hour, I've tried doing this by making a sensor that is always failing with an alert to email me if the sensor is down but it only sends the one email even though I've set it to send repeat notifiations. The reason I'm doing this is I want a way to KNOW without logging in that my PRTG is actually on and the sensors are working, if I have a sensor which sole purpose is to fail and email me once per hour that would work. Can someone please help me out with doing this?
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Hi Mark,
Thank you for the KB-Post. You can configure SMTP-Sensors to send an email. Set the sensor to a 60 minute interval and there you have a heartbeat. Although I agree with Florian, there are other more elegant ways to do this (his recommendations are great!).
best regards.
Jan, 2019 - Permalink
If it MUST be an email, why not having this email show you all down and warning sensors for that moment..
This tool can be set up with scheduled task, sending an email every hour or whenever you like.
Status2Email Send down and warning sensors by email
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Kind regards,
PRTGToolsFamily
Jan, 2019 - Permalink
Is your PRTG reachable from the outside world? If so - there are plenty of possible solutions to see if the web-site is reachable, indicating that you are online and PRTG is running.
Another possible solution is PRTG cloud based - meaning you have a probe on your environment but all the configuration is in the cloud. This would also alert you if your remote-probe (on your network) would become unreachable.
Personally, I would be annoyed getting an alive email every hour. I would see that I automate this somehow.
A second location with a free edition of PRTG helps - or a from home monitoring PRTG if the big one is alive - etc.. there is many ways you can accomplish this better then spamming your self with alive emails.
Regards
Florian Rossmark
www.it-admins.com
Jan, 2019 - Permalink