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Tuesday, May 27 2008

Release Candidate 1 of our new flagship product PRTG 7 is available for download

Today we have uploaded the first Release Candidate of our new monitoring tool PRTG Network Monitor.

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Friday, May 23 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 6: Why we created the PRTG 7 user interface to be a little.... different

This another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

We began the development process of PRTG 7 in 2006. The first step was to make a list of features that we (and our customers) wanted to have in the software additionally to all the functionalities of PRTG 6 and IPCheck 5. We listened to feedback from our users and one major task was to create a new software that was able to monitor 10-50 times as many sensors as the old programs and - as a consequence - we also needed a new user interface to enable the users to handle hundreds and thousands of sensors with ease.

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Wednesday, May 14 2008

Listening to Customer Requests. That's what we've done - for PRTG 7.

I do understand that - being used to PRTG 6 - looking at PRTG 7 may let you frown at the first glance. And yes, maybe the new software isn't the kind of breakthrough user interface that we have tried to create for each and every user. There may be some areas where PRTG 6 still is quicker solution.

But if you stay with PRTG 6 you will miss so much! Let me take you on a short guided tour trip so you can see why we did make many substantial changes to the software, why we created new concepts and what unbelievable power is now built into PRTG 7!

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Friday, May 09 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 5: The "Inheritance" Concept

This another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

The hierarchical list of sensors is not only used to group sensors to organize them, there is also an important aspect involved that we call "Inheritance".

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Thursday, May 08 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 4: Object Hierarchy - Probes, Groups, Devices, Sensors, Channels

This another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

In PRTG Network Monitor the actual monitoring is performed by "Sensors". One of these sensors always monitors one single aspect of a network device, e.g.

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Wednesday, May 07 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 for PRTG 6 users - What's new? What's different?

Today we have published a new knowledgebase article that summarizes the differences between PRTG Network Monitor 7 and its predecessor PRTG Traffic Grapher 6 - from the perspective of a PRTG 6 user.

The new version 7 of PRTG brings together the functionalities of PRTG 6 and IPCheck 5 into one concise network monitoring application and adds a number of new features, especially some functions to ease and automate management for larger networks.

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Tuesday, May 06 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 3: User Interface Navigation

Here is another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

The main layout of PRTG Network Monitor's web-based user interface consists of the Global Status Bar at the top, the Header Area with the main menu and quick-search box below it and finally the main page content.

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Monday, May 05 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 2: System Architecture

This blog post continues my series of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

PRTG Network Monitor System Architecture
PRTG Network Monitor consists of three main parts:

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Friday, May 02 2008

Introduction to PRTG 7 Part 1: Product Overview

Over the next few weeks I will publish a number of introductory blog posts about our new software "PRTG Network Monitor 7" which is currently undergoing a public beta test.

Let's begin with a short overview of what PRTG 7 is:

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