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Buggy reporting
Hi, we have generated monthly reports and we have enabled percentile set to continuous. In our monthly reports, do you know why the 95th percentile value that is generated in the pdf under the channel table does not match on the 'Percen...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
How to display the IP address on the Ping sensor
I'm monitoring several users PC's that connect both when on the Network LAN and via VPN using the DNS name. i would like to be able to also display the IP address of these devices and have it show up in the notifications as well. Ho...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Alerts for interface utilization
I'm trying to Generate notifications based on interface utilization. I know I can set limits at the sensor level but I'm currently tracking about 18K sensors, which makes setting limits at that level no a valid solution. Anyone have...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Pixelated QR code printing
Hi All, I'm attempting to print a bunch of QR codes using the hidden qr code feature within PRTG. For some reason no matter what device or browser I print from or to they are always coming out pixilated and unusable. I've attem...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Monitor Outlook OST file size.
HI, I need to monitor the size of OST file and alert when it become 19GB large. Article Comments Hello. You can use the File Sensor to monitor the size of any file as long as it is on a SMB share acessible by PRTG or on a Probe...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Traceroute sensor maximum hop count
Hi Can the Traceroute sensor's maximum hop count be tweaked? It maxes out at 30 hops, but one of our monitored devices is now 31 hops away. The sensor throws an error saying the host didn't respond, which isn't true. Thank...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
Detailed Error Information: Module IIS Web Core Notification MapRequestHandler Handler StaticFile Error Code 0x80070002 Requested URL http://127.0.0.1:80/home Physical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\home Logon Method Anonymous...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Druckerinformationen per SNMP monitoren
Hallo zusammen, ich hab da mal ne Frage: Ich möchte die Zählerstände aus unseren OKI Druckern ermitteln. Wir haben Farb- sowie Monochrome Systeme. Also muss ich die Zählerstände für die gedruckten Farb und S/W Seiten getrennt ermittel...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Free disk space sensors don't find partitions/drives on external storage system
Hello, I would like to ask how to request free disk space of a database server - but not the free space on the local built-in disk array but on the attached storage system. All kinds of WMI sensors failed - they all only find the server...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Disable Export Cipher Suites for PRTG
Hi Support, Can you please advise the method to disable DH Export suites for PRTG (latest version). AS per this security advisory - https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html I've found this regkey, and the CipherLevel DWORD, but not sure ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Unable to create Windows Print Queue sensor after password change.
After changing the domain admin password all Windows Print Queue sensors stopped working and I am unable to create any new sensors. I did run the WMITest.exe program on the probe's host server with success. The only sensor that seems to...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Get data from PRTG with Powershell
Is it possible to get data from PRTG, with powershell? Has anybody done that before? I would like to receive data like disk-usages and uptime-information. Article Comments Hi, Sure, this is possible. PRTG offers an HTTP API w...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Run Powershell script remotely but not Exchange server
Hello It seems complicated to find how to create a PSSession to a remote server which is not an Exchange server. This works only for an Exchange server: $session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri &q...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
PRTG agent sync over uucp
Gday, Please let me know, is there a way to connect a PRTG agent via sync file communication system? We have a lot of assychronous systems which works under Linux with UUCP and uux system. Those systems are speaking from different geo ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Library as a sunburst map
Is there a way to show using a custom map object a library as a sunburst. We need to have a way to show are enterprise services to others and it seems libraries are the way to do it. I have seen code to display a custom map from a libra...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Monitor subject of email in shared/public folder in Exchange 2013
Is it possible to monitor subject of email in shared/public folder in Exchange 2013? It is not possible to do with the IMAP sensor, since exchange 2013 does not allow/support accessing shared folders over IMAP. Article Comments ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Received error for Netapp "FileSystem Overall Status"
Last Message Error in FileSystem Overall Status: 'Full' This error occured on Friday night. It is a channel part of Netapp System Health Status. Can someone please define what this channel is monitoring and why it is giving an e...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
SQL-File Upload auf Server für SQL v2 Sensoren
Hi there While testing the new SQL v2 Sensors we realized that the concerning sql-files have to be uploaded to the Server that runs PRTG. Unfortunately not all of our Users implementing Sensors have access to the Filesystem of the PRTG-...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Need help with new Map
I would like to build a new map for each of my offices that shows my Edge router, Riverbed Steelhead and any access switches. The purpose of this map is like a CDP neighbor. I want to show the links between all of these devices so I can s...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Logging value from SNMP library lookup
I am monitoring our Server room with a APC Netbotz 450 and have imported the mib file into PRTG. I would like to see a history of the temperature and humidity but only response time and downtime is shown when looking the the sensor. The loo...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Enable SNMP on ESXi 5.1 or later
How do I enable SNMP on the ESXi host to be able to monitor it using SNMP Article Comments it is as simple as running the following commands on your individual hosts from a console session. Replace YOUR_STRING with the community...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Core Server Overburdened
We have a single core server but we are getting lots of probe health errors and losing flows. We are trying to come up with a way to split the load between multiple core servers. Currently we have: Database Objects Probes 71 Gro...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
SSH login for switches
Is there a way to connect to a switch via SSH or Telnet within PRTG (or issue a connection via putty via PRTG)? Article Comments Hi, you might have a look at the built in SSH Sensors of PRTG. Additional, you also might use putt...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Average CPU Memory & Disk space Utilization
I have to generate a report every month for all my servers showing the average memory, cpu and disk utilization. Currently, I am manually going to the portal and generate the reports and sent them to my email. Then I read the value for ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Monitor PRTG Server from other Server
Hi all, I would like to know if the is a way the Monitor a PRTG Server over HTTP trought an other PRTG Server. What i would like to monitor: - Is the Server UP - Last check from any Sensor / Last Data - Number of Sensor with state...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Bandwidth used by SNMP sensors
Hello, We are checking PRTG to use like monitoring system in a proyect in Mozambique, links that we have there are 250kb ... becasue are using for airport system. We want to monitoring CPU usage of Cisco switches and bandwith of those l...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When I press settings in the Enterpris Console I get error -312
Hi Paessler When I press the settings tab in the Enterprise console I get the error: Error -312 when loading url http:prtgserver/wingui_editdata.htm?id=2233&login=user&password=secret Can you assist. Br. Bjorn Article...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Temperature sensor does nog work Raspberry Pi2
I just setted up a Raspberry Pi 2 with the newest version of rasbian. I have completed the setup for linux miniprobe to connect it to prtg. The miniprobe works 100% and cpu, ram ect. works fine in prtg. The temperature sensor works in the...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
How to monitor robocopy logs with PRTG
In the company I work, we use the command Robocopy in a bat file with the Windows Task Scheduler to run some backups, every backup creates a log file with the name following the pattern: Full_"%date:/=_%".txt . I would like to kno...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
PRTG customized report
I am trying to setup a report for a customer, it will show multiple sites "Ping" and "bandwidth" sensors. By using the sensor list report template, I am able to build a report with "Ping" sensor: 'Result...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Monitor Windows services via SNMP (not WMI)
My old monitoring system was able to monitor windows services natively via SNMP. I am trying to figure out how to get PRTG to do this. We have over 500 windows servers and I am trying to avoid going the WMI route. Right now PRTG through SNM...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I can put ESX sensor with netframework 4 installed
I can not use the sensors to esx install DepNet.com for several of netframework 4 as previously said to use but could not implement them yet because I keep asking for the installation of net framework when I have it installed on your comput...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
PRTG server querying DNS every 60 sec
Hi, This ins't a problem as such, more of an observation. I have three active DNS servers on my network; two live and one which is soon to be decommissioned. While checking the DNS logs of the soon-to-be-decommissioned server, I not...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
change the "Homepage URL" default value for create new user
I would like to create 10 users in prtg and would like to change the "Homepage URL" to "/group.htm?id=0&tabid=1". But I don't want to change the homepage one by one manually. How can I change the "Homepa...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
SNMP Custom String Sensor multiple keywords
Hi there, My question might be simple but i couldn't find any answer to it. Is it possible to search the SNMP String for more than one Keyword or do i need to use multiple sensors for that? I need to check on a HWg-STE Temperature d...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What is the interface number?
Say I want to monitor 2 links using netflow on a device, Ethernet4/26 and Ethernet7/17, what are their interface numbers? I'd like to use the filtering tools in the sensor settings. Assuming I can't use SNMP to retrieve the interf...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sensors not working with Arista Switch.
Hi Team, I have PRTG 15 running in my office, and we added Arista switches, enabled SNMP with a community string, and we are able to detect the Cisco switch, but not the Arista switches using auto discovery. If auto doesnt work, how do...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
File Content Sensor - String not found
Hi I wanted to set up a File Content Sensor for a ".txt" file. For tests I wrote only "DisplayName" inside the ".txt" file. Now if i search for "DisplayName", prtg allways says "String 'Dis...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Problem with WMI Sensor on Windows 2012
Several times a day some WMI sensor for a specific system reports the following message "80010108: The object invoked has disconnected from its clients" I use WMI-Arbeitspeicher, WMI -Uptime, WMI-Diskspace. The system I monito...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Monitoring IIS 6 SMTP Server on Windows Server 2012R2
We are trying to monitor the RemoteQueueLength in WMI for IIS6 SMTP on Windows Server 2012R2. PRTG returns the following from running a batch file calling the 64bit version of Powershell. We did try just running it under the native 32bit ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
800700A4: No more threads can be created in the system- Note: the OS version of the device could not
I keep getting the below error: 800700A4: No more threads can be created in the system- Note: the OS version of the device could not be determined, WMI might not work reliably. Could anyone please assist? Article Comments ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
SSH Script Advanced
I have written a script with separate channels using XML that works fine but have two questions/issues. 1. The data return is a percentage but no matter what channel settings I try, I cannot get the dials to show anything but all the way ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sensor is not getting added
Hi, I am trying to install PRTG traffic grapher in my windows server 2003 service pack 2, using my routers WAN IP also tried with LAN IP, configured snmp string, SNMP port 161, but still getting connection refused kindly revert on this ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Can I send mails via external server? f.e. gmail.com ; outlook.com
Hello We have an Exchange Server but this server doesn't get directly mails. - For receiving we use "popcon". So normally our mails go to an external provider and our popcon asks this server and if there are any mails so ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Is there a way to multi-edit toplists?
Hello, We have multiple Netflow v9 sensors running among several remote probes. We're facing performance issues related to toplists. Because of that, I'd like to edit the toplists settings like the retention time, the toplist count...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Custom Sensor Powershell.
Hi, I want create a custom sensor with a powershell command. Get-RDUserSession -ConnectionBroker sevrer.domain.local result CollectionName DomainName UserName HostServer -------------- ---------- ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Additional view with different Hierarchy for Devices
Could we have an additional view with a different hierarchy for devices. For example. The main device hierarchy follows the location of the devices. Hence the devices are arranged into region, country and location groups. The dependency and...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Why are we getting Authentication Failed, and Socket Error 10060, from our IMAP Sensor
We are monitoring several backup services within one mailbox. All of the backup services send emails to one email account. We followed the instructions given for the previous question https://helpdesk.paessler.com/en/support/solutions/a...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
New snmp memory sensor showing as Response time
Working with Extreme Black Diamond 8800 systems, I've downloaded, split and imported the mibs with the info I'm looking for (CPU utilization, system memory, free memory, user memory etc). I've added the SNMP library and the se...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
simplify notification
i want to simplify my notifications in order to receive them in this format : [System Name] [Sensor Name] [Status] [Critical Value] Actually i'm a beginner with PRTG and i want to personnalize it. Article Comments Dear k...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Edit Default Mail Template
Hi, We've just moved to PRTG v16 from an older version and it looks like we've lost the ability to customise the email notification content. Does anyone know how to edit the default mail template? Thanks, David. Articl...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:19 PM
How can I get data from a string value inside of a table
I using the custom table beta amd I can view everything except a string which is referenced in the setup guide for the customer table snmp sensor. The reference suggests you cannot get string values as it will mark the sensor as down. If I...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Custom Alarm Table Map Object For Library
I've seen a couple of dated posts regarding this however, nothing has a definitive answer other than "this is not possible" however, those posts have been from a couple of years ago. I've created some custom libraries to...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
PRTG API template ID must be numeric?
Hi everyone. So there I was, starting to use PRTG for more and more, and getting really excited about the product. Then I decided to set it up to monitor SSL and domain expiry - and discovered that unfortunately when you try and use a tar...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Scritp to get values by CLI
Hi We are trying to monitor a EMC Vnxe 3200 using PRTG. Since the vnxe doen't have any SNMP Pooling, we can not monitor it in real time. We found a scritp using by Nagios to monitor it using CLI commands. https://exchange.nagios...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Remote Execution PowerShell Custom Sensor Windows Backup
I created a PowerShell script which checks the Windows Backup EventLogs for errors. The script is signed and it works when i run it manually from a different machine. For whatever reason, PRTG always returns the value 1, but it should retur...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
How to give shared network file path in the custom vb script?
I have a vb script to check the log file update for every minute and it works perfectly in my local machine. Now I am using this script to monitor the log file in one of my server. I have created a device with the server name(XXX) and add...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
How can I add actions (TELNET-SSH) in PRTG Network Monitor Dashboards?
PRTG Network Monitor - Dashboards with actions (TELNET-SSH) Actions (TELNET-SSH) can also be added in RTG Network Monitor dashboards, customizing map objects for each protocol. The function (Telnet, SSH) in PRTG can facilitate the work ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Example SSH Advanced Script?
Are there any examples of the Custom SSH Advanced scripts generating XML output? I'd like to see a functional script that is working. My objective is to collect inventory data through PRTG and I'd like to have the sensors reports st...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Disk Used space channel
Hello, How to add "Used space, GB" channel in disk space sensor? Article Comments Hello, we appreciate your inquiry. This is not possible, the sensors focus in measuring the "Free Space" because that i...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Install free version without trial license
Hi, I've tried to bypass the trial mode multiple times and aim to directly use the free version with it's 100 sensors cap. But it seems that the completion of the setup requires entering a trial license key. Is there a way to st...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Using net use in EXE/Script Sensor
We have EXE/script sensor defined running script below. net use s: /delete net use s: \\10.10.0.43\MyLibrary\Zalohy\Miranda /user:jmeno heslo /PERSISTENT:NO $result = Get-ChildItem s:\|where{$_.LastWriteTime -gt (get-date).AddDays(-2)} ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Acknowledged alerts disappear when the device is paused and unpaused
We have an access layer switch with a fault on one of its ports. The fault has been acknowledged in PRTG, turning it from a bright red colour to a dim red colour. The group the device is located within is then paused as part of a change c...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Event Log Monitor not detecting event log entries
I have tried setting up both the WINAPI and WMI event log to look for "success" backup entries in the event log. I want to monitor Cloudberry Online Backup which logs a single event when it's successful. http://screencast....
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Monitoring Windows 10 Backup and restore if successfully
I would like to monitoring a "backup and restore" job in windows 10 that run weekly if successfully. Could you help me or have any tips for me? Article Comments They are stored in the the windows events. It can be moni...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Multiple SNMP Credentials?
Hi all! I've got an odd issue, and couldn't find the answer in the KB. I've got everything all set up and working fine, however, I've got one set of devices that ONLY work with SNMP v1, and I've got another set of dev...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
SSH Disk Free sensor - exclude NFS
Hi, I only have access to the probe, not the PRTG server. I don't want NFS mounted file systems checked by this sensor (-x nfs), as I watch those on the NFS server itself. Is there any way to exclude those without writing my own senso...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Sensor for when both LTM's are active?
Hello, As the title described. I'm wondering if there would be a MIB sensor for PRTG that shows/alerts when 2 LTM's are active under the same network? We are currently using 2 "F5" LTM's, but both cannot be online an...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Remote Probe Identification
Hi I am trying to determine how the core server identifies remote probes. So is it based on IP/GUID/Password/combination ? The reason I am asking is we have a requirement to install a number of probes that will all appear to originate f...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Adding a PRTG probe via NAT
Hi, I'm just wondering if this is supported? Can the server talk to a probe with a NAT address? I'm finding that I can't add a probe this way Thanks! Article Comments Hello Silver565, thank you for your post. ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Remote Probe always disconnecting with DDNS
Hello, We have a Remote Probe in one of our customers Site. We use no-ip.com DDNS to connect the remote Probe to our Core Probe, which has a static IP Adress. We have seen that on every Public IP Change of the Remote Probe, the Core Pro...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Scan Exception
The last 2 days, I have been greeted in the morning by all status ok devices(which should be green) with state unknown (grey). Any devices that have alarms are correctly coloured and if I clear the alarm problems, they update to status unkn...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
tracert with IP check
Hi i would like to have a sensor wish checkes in a tracerout the IP of a hop for example: tracert google.com 1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.65.5 2 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms 192.168.65.4 .... I would like to know when the...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Device sunburst size in maps
Good afternoon, I'm using a Sunburst object to show some device in a Map but I see that the "circle" of the sunburst doesnt fit the size of the div, how can I manage this? For example: if I insert the object and make the dim...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Radius v2 sensor only supports plain text auth?
Have I got this right? I couldn't get it to work against a windows radius server unless I turned it on Article Comments Hello, The radius v2 uses an external library for the authetication: https://github.com/frontporch/Rad...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
QOS Reflector on Windows
I note the information in the following kb article about QOS Reflectors: https://helpdesk.paessler.com/en/support/solutions/articles/76000063284-how-can-i-monitor-qos-roundtrips-without-using-remote-probes and have the following questions...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Corporate Unlimited vs Unlimited
Hello, How does Corporate Unlimited differ from Unlimited license? And most importantly, if it supports multi core servers, how does that work? Is it similar top clustering servers and a single data base? If one of the core servers ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Amount of servers in a cluster
We currently have a 2500 sensor license for our PRTG installation which is backed up to one fail over node in a cluster. How many more servers can we add as fail over nodes on this license? Many thanks Rob Article Comments Y...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
ssh meminfo sensor failures
After doing OS updates on 4.4.11-23.53.amzn1.x86_64 the ssh meminfo sensor fails with: The host's system is unable to process PRTG's command: "cat /proc/meminfo". (code: PE096) The failures are intermittent but consistent....
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
PRTG Cluster - licensing
I just want to confirm that if I select the cluster option for PRTG and I have 2 sites for monitoring, licensing will not be affected for this; for instance if I have a 500 sensors license and I have 2 installations of the software the lice...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Scroll Bar's Visible on Maps
Since the last update, we are getting a scroll bar on our maps that are set to 1920x1080, that are being displayed on a 1080p device in full screen. It worked fine before the update. How can we remove these scroll bars? Thanks Art...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:18 PM
auto acknowledge on a schedule
We have serveral machines that need to stop several services in order to backup. Now; it's possible to auto acknowledge the issue eg every night between 01:00 and 05:00 and generate an normal alarm at other times. While it's possibl...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
creating sensor for customize notification
i need to create a sensor on my database which contain the notifications history as if it has no new entries after xx minutes, it initiate a warn. After xx minutes, trigger an alarm. Article Comments Hm, I'm afraid that this...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Help from Sensor Factory sensor ?
As i have 40 Devices (routers) each has different IP and placed in different location and each devices has one interface and each interface has two channels (Download and upload), I want to make aggregation of 40 devices download and upload...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Same Sensor ID
Good day, Today i looked up again in my PRTG server and i faced that i have two different sensors with same name and same ID but with different Traffic. For instance : Sensor (009) TesT : - On Cisco # 1 Sensor (009) TesT : - ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Monitor Changes to Domain Admin Group (Windows 2008 R2 Domain)
Hi, I can monitor changes to all groups by filtering event ID 4728 in Security Event Log But is it possible to monitor only the "Domain Admins" Group ? Thanks Martin Article Comments Dear Martin It is possible ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
New Feature/Enhancement Request
It would be nice that when an alarm goes off the option to run an external script like a powershell cmdlet was allowed. Example. When a website would not respond to the http sensor a powershell script could be executed that would say rest...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
SMSdriver: does it work?
Good afternoon, I'm trying to use the SMS notification but I miss something: - I went to smsdriver.com; - Registered a username/password; - Activated the account; - Went in my PRTG config, chosed smsdriver.com from the list, inserted ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
SNMP Query returns several values, how to set that up in PRTG?
I'm trying to graph the CPU of a Netgear SmartSwitch (GS724T) and unfortunately the only value they have for CPU is a complex string with 3 values and their index. The return is this: "5 Secs ( 14.2725% ) 60 Secs ( 12.630% ) ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Why does the system reboot without warning when updating PRTG?
Occasionally when updating PRTG in the web interface the system will reboot. Without warning. This is a very dangerous approach to software updating and system management in general. There was no dialog or question asking if and when to r...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Core setup silent install fails on e-mail adress
Hello, We are in the process of full automation of PRTG with core(s) and probes based on What command line codes and exit codes can I use with Paessler setups?. The installation of the core fails on the e-mail configuration (log below). ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Re-activation of sensors. Notification.
Hey. I wish I had an email notification to, if any sensor breakdowns more than once per week / month / year. Simply put, if for instance on the host CPU sensor work per week / month / year 2-3-4 times, I want to have my letter arrived. How ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Any way to remove outages from statistics?
Hi, Our monitoring server had an outage because of a faulty patch cable of about 3 hours. This has affected all of our stats and is now producing invalid uptime percentages for our servers. Is there any way that I can remove this monitori...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
alarms vmware
Hi, In PRTG there are some checks and sensors made for VMWare. We are using vsphere v6 with VSAN but when there are errors, PRTG doesnt recognized that. We had this morning health issues of some physical disks but we didn't get any no...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Sensor Factory Sensor is not available
Der Sensor Factory Sensor ist in meiner PRTG Installation nicht verfügbar. Wie kann ich diesen Sensor hinzufügen? The Sensor Factory sensor is not available in my PRTG installation. How can I add this sensor? Article Comments...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
How do I disable the generation of "Result of Sensor XXXX.Data.txt" files?
I recently updated from v15 to v16, and now all the "EXE/Script Advanced" sensors are dumping their output in the "Logs (Sensors)" directory, even though they all are explicitly set to "Write EXE result to disk in c...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Set sensor to warning for X intervals
We have a SNMP CPU Load sensor on a critical server and all cores spiked to 100% at the moment that the sensor caught it. This immediately sent the Down notification to our ticketing system. Even though I have it set to: Set sensor ...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NETATMOXML Sensor
Hello everbody Can someone guide me through the installation of the sensor XML Netatmo Sensor? http://prtgtoolsfamily.com/downloads/sensorsxml I installed as shown in the instructions, with parameter "-r" But no browser windows op...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Zeitüberschreitung (Code: PE018) on one server after windows updates
Hi there, i run PRTG on the server08 and monitor 7 more servers with the software. Last weekend I updated all servers with the latest windows updates and since then I got the error (Code: PE018) on the server07 at the "Windows-Upda...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Hi 1 ask.... can i show sites visited from all pcs in my network
i have a 8 pcs and pfsense firewall whit squid i want know if can use for show web visited for all computers in my net y can buy if can see this whit top visited web and who is a ip whit more web visited etc ..... thanx Article...
Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 10:17 PM