PRTG Network Monitor V7 PDF User Manual

Today, most businesses rely on a computer and network infrastructure for Internet, internal management, telephone and email. A complex set of servers and network equipment is required to ensure that business data flows seamlessly between employees, offices and customers. The economical success of an organization is tightly connected with the flow of data.

Why Network Monitoring is Important
The computer network’s reliability, speed and efficiency are crucial for businesses to be successful. But, like all other technical objects, network devices may fail from time to time – potentially causing trouble and loss of sales – no matter what mitigation efforts have been made up-front.
Network administrators need to take three key steps to maintain network uptime, reliability and speed:
1. Set up a well-planned network with reliable components.
2. Create recovery plans for the event of device failure.
3. Monitor their network to know about failures as they build up or actually happen.
PRTG Network Monitor, the software described in this document, is a complete solution for monitoring small, medium and large networks.

Monitoring Networks with PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful network monitoring application for Windows-based systems. It is suitable for small, medium and large networks and capable of LAN, WAN, WLAN and VPN monitoring. It monitors network availability and bandwidth usage as well as various other network parameters such as quality of service, memory load and CPU usages. It provides system administrators with live readings and periodical usage trends to optimize the efficiency, layout and setup of leased lines, routers, firewalls, servers and other network components. The software is easy to set up and use and monitors a network using SNMP, WMI, packet sniffing, Cisco NetFlow as well as many other industry standard protocols. It runs on a Windows-based machine in your network for 24-hours every day. PRTG Network Monitor constantly records the network usage parameters and the availability of network systems. The recorded data is stored in an internal database for later reference.

Key Features
PRTG Network Monitor can be used to:
· Monitor and alert for uptimes/downtimes or slow servers.
· Monitor and account bandwidth and network device usage.
· Monitor system usage (CPU loads, free memory, free disk space etc.).
· Classify network traffic by source/destination and content.
· Discover unusual, suspicious or malicious activity with devices or users.
· Measure QoS and VoIP parameters and control service level agreements (SLA).
· Discover and assess network devices. The PRTG installer contains all modules and software necessary to run the monitoring system without the need for third party modules, including:
· Paessler’s own fast and efficient database system to store the raw monitoring results (outperforms SQL servers for monitoring data).
· Built-in web server with HTTP and HTTPS support for the user interface.
· Mail server for automatic email delivery.
· SQLite SQL Server for storage of events, toplists and ToDos.
· Report generator to create PDF reports.
· Graphics engine for user-friendly charts.
· Network analysis module to auto-discover devices and sensors. PRTG Network Monitor can support thousands of sensors and can optionally work with multiple remote probes (agents) to monitor multiple sites or network segments from one central core installation. The software is based
on Paessler’s proven monitoring technology, which has been constantly improved since 1997 and is already use by more than 150,000 users around the world every day. Attractive licensing packages from freeware (up to 10 sensors) to enterprise level with thousands of sensors make sure that every user finds the proper solution.

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November 30, 2009 | Posted in Electronic Manual, Monitor

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