 | 1 Welcome to PRTG Network Monitor |
 | 1.1 About this Document |
| 1.2 Key Features |
| 1.3 New in Version 8 |
| 1.4 Available Licenses |
| 1.5 System Requirements |
| 1.5.1 Detailed System Requirements |
| 2 Quick Start Guide |
| 2.1 ONE—Download and Installation |
| 2.2 TWO—Start-Up |
| 2.3 THREE—Auto-Discover Your Network |
| 3 Installing the Software |
| 3.1 Download PRTG |
| 3.2 Upgrade From Previous Versions to V8 |
| 3.3 Install a PRTG Core Server |
| 3.3.1 Setup Wizard |
| 3.3.2 Welcome Wizard |
| 3.4 Install a PRTG Cluster |
| 3.5 Enter a License Key |
| 3.6 Activate the Product |
| 3.7 Install a PRTG Remote Probe |
| 3.8 Install the Windows GUI |
| 3.9 Uninstall PRTG Products |
| 4 Understanding Basic Concepts |
| 4.1 Architecture |
| 4.2 Clustering |
| 4.3 Object Hierarchy |
| 4.4 Inheritance of Settings |
| 4.5 Tags |
| 4.6 Dependencies |
| 4.7 Scheduling |
| 4.8 Notifying |
| 4.9 Data Reporting |
| 4.10 User Access Rights |
| 5 Ajax Web Interface—Basic Procedures |
| 5.1 Login |
| 5.2 General Layout |
| 5.3 Sensor States |
| 5.4 Review Monitoring Data |
| 5.5 Historic Data Reports |
| 5.6 Object Settings |
| 5.7 Alarms |
| 5.8 Logs |
| 5.9 ToDos |
| 5.10 Working with Table Lists |
| 5.11 Object Selector |
| 5.12 Priority and Favorites |
| 5.13 Pause |
| 5.14 Context Menus |
| 5.15 Hover Popup |
| 5.16 Main Menu Structure |
| 6 Ajax Web Interface—Device and Sensor Setup |
| 6.1 Auto-Discovery |
| 6.2 Create Objects Manually |
| 6.2.1 Add a Group |
| 6.2.2 Add a Device |
| 6.2.3 Add a Sensor |
| 6.3 Root Group Settings |
| 6.4 Probe Settings |
| 6.5 Group Settings |
| 6.6 Device Settings |
| 6.7 Sensor Settings |
| 6.7.1 List of Available Sensor Types |
| 6.7.2 Active Directory Replication Errors Sensor |
| 6.7.3 ADO SQL Sensor |
| 6.7.4 Amazon CloudWatch Sensor |
| 6.7.5 Cisco IP SLA Sensor |
| 6.7.6 Cluster Probe Health Sensor |
| 6.7.7 DHCP Sensor |
| 6.7.8 DNS Sensor |
| 6.7.9 Event Log (Windows API) Sensor |
| 6.7.10 EXE/Script Sensor |
| 6.7.11 EXE/Script Advanced Sensor |
| 6.7.12 File Sensor |
| 6.7.13 Folder Sensor |
| 6.7.14 FTP Sensor |
| 6.7.15 FTP Server File Count Sensor |
| 6.7.16 HDD Health Sensor |
| 6.7.17 HTTP Sensor |
| 6.7.18 HTTP Advanced Sensor |
| 6.7.19 HTTP Content Sensor |
| 6.7.20 HTTP Full Web Page Sensor |
| 6.7.21 HTTP SSL Certificate Expiry Sensor |
| 6.7.22 HTTP Transaction Sensor |
| 6.7.23 HTTP XML/REST Value Sensor |
| 6.7.24 Hyper-V Host Server Sensor |
| 6.7.25 Hyper-V Virtual Machine Sensor |
| 6.7.26 Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device Sensor |
| 6.7.27 IMAP Sensor |
| 6.7.28 IP on DNS Blacklist Sensor |
| 6.7.29 jFlow V5 Sensor |
| 6.7.30 jFlow V5 (Custom) Sensor |
| 6.7.31 LDAP Sensor |
| 6.7.32 Logfile Content Check Sensor |
| 6.7.33 Microsoft SQL Sensor |
| 6.7.34 MySQL Sensor |
| 6.7.35 NetFlow V5 Sensor |
| 6.7.36 NetFlow V5 (Custom) Sensor |
| 6.7.37 NetFlow V9 Sensor |
| 6.7.38 NetFlow V9 (Custom) Sensor |
| 6.7.39 NTP Sensor |
| 6.7.40 Oracle SQL Sensor |
| 6.7.41 Packet Sniffer (Content) Sensor |
| 6.7.42 Packet Sniffer (Custom) Sensor |
| 6.7.43 Packet Sniffer (Header) Sensor |
| 6.7.44 Ping Sensor |
| 6.7.45 Ping Jitter Sensor |
| 6.7.46 Ping with Delayed Up Sensor |
| 6.7.47 POP3 Sensor |
| 6.7.48 POP3 Email Count Sensor |
| 6.7.49 Port Sensor |
| 6.7.50 Probe Health Sensor |
| 6.7.51 PTF INI File Content Check Sensor |
| 6.7.52 QoS (Quality of Service) Sensor |
| 6.7.53 RADIUS Sensor |
| 6.7.54 RDP (Remote Desktop) Sensor |
| 6.7.55 Sensor Factory Sensor |
| 6.7.56 sFlow Sensor |
| 6.7.57 sFlow (Custom) Sensor |
| 6.7.58 Share Disk Free Sensor |
| 6.7.59 SMTP Sensor |
| 6.7.60 SMTP&IMAP Round Trip Sensor |
| 6.7.61 SMTP&POP3 Round Trip Sensor |
| 6.7.62 SNMP Custom Sensor |
| 6.7.63 SNMP Custom String Sensor |
| 6.7.64 SNMP Library Sensor |
| 6.7.65 SNMP Linux Disk Free Sensor |
| 6.7.66 SNMP Linux Load Average Sensor |
| 6.7.67 SNMP Linux Meminfo Sensor |
| 6.7.68 SNMP Traffic Sensor |
| 6.7.69 SNMP Trap Receiver Sensor |
| 6.7.70 SNMP Uptime Sensor |
| 6.7.71 SSH Disk Free Sensor |
| 6.7.72 SSH INodes Free Sensor |
| 6.7.73 SSH Load Average Sensor |
| 6.7.74 SSH Meminfo Sensor |
| 6.7.75 SSH VMWare ESX(i) Disk Sensor |
| 6.7.76 Syslog Receiver Sensor |
| 6.7.77 TFTP Sensor |
| 6.7.78 Traceroute Hop Count Sensor |
| 6.7.79 Virtuozzo Container Disk Sensor |
| 6.7.80 Virtuozzo Container Network Sensor |
| 6.7.81 VMware Host Hardware (WBEM) |
| 6.7.82 VMware Host Server (SOAP) Sensor |
| 6.7.83 VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP) Sensor |
| 6.7.84 WBEM Custom Sensor |
| 6.7.85 Windows Last Update Sensor |
| 6.7.86 Windows Logged In Users Sensor |
| 6.7.87 Windows MSMQ Queue Length Sensor |
| 6.7.88 Windows Print Queue Sensor |
| 6.7.89 WMI CPU Load Sensor |
| 6.7.90 WMI Custom Sensor |
| 6.7.91 WMI Event Log Sensor |
| 6.7.92 WMI Exchange Server 2003 Sensor |
| 6.7.93 WMI Exchange Server 2007 Sensor |
| 6.7.94 WMI File Sensor |
| 6.7.95 WMI Free Disk Space (Single Disk) Sensor |
| 6.7.96 WMI Free Disk Space (Multi Drive) Sensor |
| 6.7.97 WMI IIS 6.0 SMTP Received Sensor |
| 6.7.98 WMI IIS 6.0 SMTP Sent Sensor |
| 6.7.99 WMI Memory Sensor |
| 6.7.100 WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Sensor |
| 6.7.101 WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Sensor |
| 6.7.102 WMI Network Card Sensor |
| 6.7.103 WMI Pagefile Sensor |
| 6.7.104 WMI Process Sensor |
| 6.7.105 WMI Service Sensor |
| 6.7.106 WMI Share Sensor |
| 6.7.107 WMI Terminal Services (Windows 2008) Sensor |
| 6.7.108 WMI Terminal Services (Windows XP/Vista/2003) Sensor |
| 6.7.109 WMI Uptime Sensor |
| 6.7.110 WMI Vital System Data Sensor |
| 6.7.111 WMI Windows Version Sensor |
| 6.7.112 Xen Virtual Machine Sensor |
| 6.8 Sensor Channels Settings |
| 6.9 Sensor Notifications Settings |
| 7 Ajax Web Interface—Advanced Procedures |
| 7.1 Toplists |
| 7.2 Arrange Objects |
| 7.3 Multi-Edit Lists |
| 7.4 Create Device Template |
| 7.5 Clone Object |
| 7.6 Compare Sensors |
| 7.7 Show Dependencies |
| 7.8 Geo Maps |
| 7.9 Notifications |
| 7.10 Reports |
| 7.10.1 Reports Step By Step |
| 7.10.2 View and Run Reports |
| 7.10.3 Reports Settings |
| 7.11 Maps |
| 7.11.1 Maps Step By Step |
| 7.11.2 Maps Designer |
| 7.11.3 Maps Settings |
| 7.12 Setup |
| 7.12.1 Account Settings—My Account |
| 7.12.2 Account Settings—Notifications |
| 7.12.3 Account Settings—Schedules |
| 7.12.4 System Administration—System and Website |
| 7.12.5 System Administration—Notification Delivery |
| 7.12.6 System Administration—Probes |
| 7.12.7 System Administration—Cluster |
| 7.12.8 System Administration—User Accounts |
| 7.12.9 System Administration—User Groups |
| 7.12.10 PRTG Status—System Status |
| 7.12.11 Downloads |
| 8 Windows GUI |
| 8.1 First Start |
| 8.2 General Layout |
| 8.3 Menu Tabs and Page Content |
| 8.3.1 Devices |
| 8.3.2 Sensors |
| 8.3.3 Alarms |
| 8.3.4 Maps |
| 8.3.5 Reports |
| 8.3.6 Logs |
| 8.3.7 ToDos |
| 8.3.8 Setup |
| 8.4 Options and Server Settings |
| 8.5 Windows Menu Structure |
| 8.6 Context Menus |
| 8.7 Shortcuts Overview |
| 9 Other User Interfaces |
| 9.1 HTML GUI (Low bandwidth) |
| 9.2 iPhone Interface |
| 10 Sensor Technologies |
| 10.1 Monitoring via SNMP |
| 10.2 Monitoring via WMI |
| 10.3 Monitoring Bandwidth via Packet Sniffing |
| 10.4 Monitoring Bandwidth via Flows |
| 10.5 Bandwidth Monitoring Comparison |
| 10.6 Monitoring Quality of Service |
| 10.7 Monitoring Email Round Trip |
| 11 System Administration Programs |
| 11.1 PRTG Server Administrator |
| 11.2 PRTG Probe Administrator |
| 12 Advanced Topics |
| 12.1 Application Programming Interface (API) Definition |
| 12.2 Filter Rules for xFlow and Packet Sniffer Sensors |
| 12.3 Channel Definitions for xFlow and Packet Sniffer Sensors |
| 12.4 Define IP Ranges |
| 12.5 Add Remote Probe |
| 12.5.1 Remote Probes and Multiple Probes |
| 12.5.2 Remote Probe Setup |
| 12.6 Calculating Percentiles |
| 13 Appendix |
| 13.1 Glossary |
| 13.2 List of Abbreviations |
| 13.3 Support and Troubleshooting |
| 13.4 Legal Notices |
