Blog Entry of 2008-Jan- 8 in Admin's Toolbox, Network Monitoring Basics, PRTG 6
Installation of PRTG Traffic Grapher on Ubuntu Linux
You do not need a Windows based computer (and a Windows license) to use most of PRTG's features. You can also run PRTG Traffic Grapher 6.x on Linux. Using the "Wine Library" (which emulates Windows system calls) you can run PRTG like most other Windows apps on Linux systems. Of course some hardware/driver-based features like Packet Sniffing do not work.
For this tutorial the following steps will
- create a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 6,
- install Ubuntu 7.10 onto the virtual machine,
- install Wine 0.9.52 onto Ubuntu and
- install PRTG 6.x onto Ubuntu/Wine
Afterwards you will be able to use most of PRTG's functionality under Linux (mainly the SNMP based monitoring, latency monitoring, reporting, notifications and the internal webserver).
Here is a screenshot of the Windows GUI and the browser interface on Ubuntu 7.10 (click the image to zoom in):
Read more in our knowledgebase article.