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Monday, July 31 2006

Remotely Monitoring Free Disk Space on Web Servers

IPCheck Server Monitor user R. Hesse asked our support team for a solution to monitor the free disk space on a remote server using a small PHP script. The problem is that if your webserver is located outside of your LAN it is usually not possible to monitor the free disk space using SNMP or Windows System Sensors due to firewalls and security restrictions.

But using a small PHP script we could supply our customer with a simple and quick solution to monitor the free diskspace on his remote web server. And this concept can easily be enhanced with more complex scripts.

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Tuesday, July 25 2006

Support Forums get a new look

15 months after we have started our support forums in May last year we have seen a good acceptance of this service by our customers. More than 2000 users have written more than 4000 posts about more than 1000 topics. With some 350 posts and 3000 unique visits per month there is serious activity in the forums. Thanks to everybody who is active on the forums!

Now it was time to incorporate the forums into the official Paessler website.

Yesterday we have moved the forum from forums.paessler.com to www.paessler.com/forum and also updated the look&feel to fit the corporate website.

Join the discussions and visit the new forums!

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Thursday, July 20 2006

Changing the Storage Folder for IPCheck's Data

We have received this question a number of times in the past: How can I move the day-to-day data of IPCheck Server Monitor to a different folder or drive. Most users want to move the folder to a different drive because the monitoring database uses too much space on their C: drive, or they want the data to be in a folder that gets backed up everyday.

There is not GUI for this hidden feature, you must edit a registry key. See the
knowledgebase article for details.

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Tuesday, July 11 2006

Freeware and Standard Edition of IPCheck massively upgraded

Today IPCheck's lead developer Roland has released V5.3.2 of IPCheck Server Monitor which dramatically enhances the features available for the users of the Freeware Edition and the Standard Edition. These new enhancements give the Freeware a lot more value.

Until now Freeware and Standard users were limited to six basic sensor types, now they can use all sensor types that IPCheck Server Monitor offers. And we put even more on top: Instead of three sensors the Freeware users can now use up to five sensors.

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Wednesday, July 05 2006

How to move an installation of PRTG Traffic Grapher to another computer

If you plan to move your installation of PRTG Traffic Grapher onto another computer you should review this new article in the knowledge base. It explains what you need to do to move all your settings and all your historical data onto the new computer and also mentions a number of other aspects (licensing, router config changes etc.) that could be important. Read more

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