How do I set notifications in PRTG?

Create notification contacts to specify how to receive notifications. Recipients can be email addresses, phone numbers, or push devices (with the PRTG apps for iOS or Android). Select Setup | Account Settings | Notification Contacts from the main menu. Hover over and select Add Email Contact or Add SMS Contact.

How do I set notifications in PRTG?

Create notification contacts to specify how to receive notifications. Recipients can be email addresses, phone numbers, or push devices (with the PRTG apps for iOS or Android). Select Setup | Account Settings | Notification Contacts from the main menu. Hover over and select Add Email Contact or Add SMS Contact.

Can PRTG send email?

Custom notification scripts are also available in the PRTG Sensor Hub. Define how PRTG sends emails via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP): Use direct delivery with the built-in email server (default): Use the built-in SMTP relay server.

What is PRTG alert?

Alerts are an important part of monitoring that informs you when there are issues, when values exceed thresholds, or when a sensor status has changed, for example. PRTG offers many ways to alert you about your monitoring data like internal sensor alerts, limits, and lookups.

Can PRTG do NetFlow?

PRTG lets you monitor your bandwidth use, server, CPU, traffic analysis, website, cloud services, and much more. And can be used as a professional NetFlow Analyzer software, as well.

What are placeholders in PRTG notifications?

PRTG Manual: List of Placeholders for Notifications

Placeholder Resolved Content
%groupid ID number of the group in which the event was triggered
%history History of sensor events
%home URL of the PRTG web server
%host IP or DNS name of the device that triggered the event

How do I set threshold in PRTG?

1. Setting limits for non-custom sensor channels

  1. Step 1: Select the sensor channel to set limits for. Select the sensor that you want to add limits for.
  2. Step 2: Enable limit alerting.
  3. Step 3: Enter the limit values.
  4. Step 4: Define limit messages (optional)

Is PRTG safe?

PRTG comes with the highest security standards possible for monitoring tools and we are constantly improving and updating these standards (just look for “security” in the PRTG version history). PRTG is also well protected against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Can PRTG send SMS?

Choose Setup | Account Settings | Notification Templates from the PRTG main menu bar and click Add Notification Template. Enter a notification name and click Send SMS/Pager Message. Provide the Recipient Number and adjust the Message if needed. Adjust all the other settings to your needs.

How do I enable NetFlow on PRTG?

PRTG: Configure a Netflow Sensor

  1. From the equipment, add sensor 1 .
  2. In the search area 1 enter netflow then click on the Netflow sensor 2 to be added (in the version 5 example).
  3. Configure the sensor by specifying the port 1 and the ip address of the sender 2 .

What is Plixer Scrutinizer?

Plixer Scrutinizer collects, analyzes, visualizes, and reports on data from every network conversation and digital transaction to deliver security and network intelligence.

What is Channel in PRTG?

A sensor has one or more channels in which it handles the actual monitoring data. In the channel settings, you can define how to display the data from the sensor’s different channels displayed in graphs, gauges, and tables. Additionally, the channel data can determine the sensor status.