“PRTG MONITORING”

Name: Demata Sub: IT elective 2

Moreno Day: M,W, - 6:00-7:30pm
Larcena

PRTG Network Monitor is an uptime and bandwidth monitoring software that supports a broad variety
of sensor types. The network monitoring software is currently being used by over 200,000 customers
worldwide.
PRTG is network-monitoring software that can run on a Windows machine within your network and it
can collect statistics from designated hosts such as routers, servers, switches and other important devices
or applications.

The benefits are:

 Increased profits: no losses caused by undetected system failures.
 Improved customer satisfaction by providing more reliable systems.
 Peace of mind: As long as they do not hear from the monitoring tool they know everything is
running perfectly.
 Deliver better quality of service to users
 It can detect problems before they deteriorate into faults and by alerting these problems to a
network administrator, many costly service outages can be avoided. Furthermore, PRTG is free
for small businesses tracking less than 25 devices.
 Avoid performance bottlenecks and proactively deliver better quality of service.
 Reduce costs by buying according to needs and increase profits by minimising downtime.
 Find peace of mind: No alarms from PRTG means that everything is running fine.
 Single Page Application web interface. All object setting dialogues are shown as pop-up layers,
so you never lose the current context when changing the tag of an object or adding a notification
trigger.

Network monitor software is essential for companies of any size and branch, to ensure that their
computer systems are running smoothly and that no outages occur. The network monitor software PRTG
is inexpensive, flexible to use and easy to deploy.
Many small business networks do not install network-monitoring applications, as they are sometimes
considered complicated, unnecessary and/or expensive. However, network monitoring can prevent
expensive loss of service, such as company email or failure of the company e-commerce website.
Furthermore, network monitoring is no longer expensive, complex and complicated to install and
configure.
PRTG in particular is easy to deploy and operate, hence its popularity in SMB environments.
 What makes PRTG particularly user-friendly is that it will auto-discover the devices on the network and
auto-configure them. PRTG will then poll these devices via your choice of SNMP, WMI, packet sniffing
, Net flow, jflow, sflow, or IPFIX. PRTG’s easy to use web-interface and point-and-click configuration
make it suitable for both real time troubleshooting or for sharing data with non-technical staff via online
graphs and custom reports.
Network-monitoring software is an important administrative tool when it comes to operating and
maintaining a network, regardless of the size as often there are few symptoms or warnings prior to a
network outage.
PRTG can track system anomalies and provide early warnings to potentially calamitous network events
thereby giving the administrator sufficient time to take corrective action.
The way PRTG works is by using sensors, which are individual monitoring entities configured for a
specific purpose. For example, there are HTTP, SMTP/POP3 (email) application sensors as well as
hardware specific sensors for switches, routers and servers. PRTG has over 200 pre-configured sensor
types that poll statistics from the monitored entities, such as response times,
processor/memory/bandwidth usage.
List of Available Sensor Types:
 Common Sensors
 Bandwidth Monitoring Sensors
 Web Servers (HTTP) Sensors
 SNMP Sensors
 Windows WMI/Performance Counters Sensors
 Linux/Unix/OS X Sensors
 Virtual Servers Sensors
 Mail Servers Sensors
 Database Servers Sensors
 Storage and File Servers Sensors
 Various Servers Sensors
 VoIP and QoS Sensors
 Hardware Parameters Sensors
 Cloud Services Sensors
 Custom Sensors
 eHealth Sensors
 PRTG Internal Sensors
 All Sensors in Alphabetical Order
 Script World Sensors
 IoT Sensors