Blog Entry of 2009-Feb-20 in PRTG 7
New Features in PRTG 7.1 (Part 1): The "Sensor Factory"
During the beta test of PRTG Network Monitor 7.1 I will post a number of blog articles about new features in the new version.
One of the coolest new features in V7.1 is the "Sensor Factory". It allows to combine measurements from two or more sensors into one new sensor.
Samples for the usage are:
- Show two ore more channels from one or more sensors in one graph
- Add the value from two or more channels (from one or more sensors) into a new value (you can also subtract, multiply and divide values)
- Create charts with one or more graph lines and one or more horizontal lines at specific vertical positions
Here is second sample: A sensor factory which compares the results of an SNMP sensor, a WMI sensor and two packet sniffer sensors for one data line. And there is a horizontal line at 2 Mbit/s (click to zoom in).
The Sensor Factory can be found in the "Custom Sensors" section when creating a new sensor. See the manual for detailed setup instructions.