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2010-Aug-16
New Features in PRTG 8 - Part 4: New Graph Types
While the beta test of PRTG 8 is running we are posting a series of blog articles about new features!
One frequently requested feature was the possibility to show filled and stacked graphs. Here you go: With PRTG 8, we introduce an optional new appearance for our data graphs! You can now set graphs to be “filled” or “stacked”, and you can even display data using the positive/negative y-axis, which is quite handy for showing traffic in and traffic out in one graph.
The new graph types can be used when displaying live data as well as when generating reports. See some examples below. By the way, you can find the radio buttons to enable these features in the system settings and the sensor settings.
2010-Aug-10
Vintage Browsers and PRTG: Why We Do Not Support IE6/IE7 Any More
There is an obvious trend for application design nowadays: Everybody wants web based applications! They offer three big advantages: 1. web based applications only require a web browser on the end-users’ computers 2. usage is, in most cases, easy to learn 3. they can be centrally managed by the administrators We anticipated this trend in 2006 when we designed the architecture of PRTG 7 which completely relies on a web based user interface.2010-Aug- 4
News from the PRTG Community
Enabling its users to write their own custom sensors, PRTG offers a powerful option to extend existing network monitoring to make it even more convenient. Although PRTG offers out-of-the-box monitoring for a huge variety of devices and systems, sometimes system administrators have special requirements in very specific setups. These can be met using own script or EXE files that can be easily integrated in the central monitoring solution.Sensors at Google Code Project
At a Google Code Project Hosting website for PRTG7 Add-ons, users share their home-made scripts and EXE files that can be used as PRTG sensors. For example, one of our most active users, Gerard Feijth, released several custom sensors during the last months, all implementing features which users had asked for in the Paessler Knowledge Base:2010-Aug- 3
New Features in PRTG 8 - Part 3: Introducing "The PRTG Cluster"
While the beta test of PRTG 8 is running we are posting a series of blog articles about new features! With version 8, we introduce a completely new and up-to-date feature: PRTG’s failover clustering. It is included in all licenses and enables you to set up a fail-safe monitoring system with seamless data—no more data gaps when a system crashes or when you have to restart your server (not even a software upgrade of PRTG will stop monitoring). I want to give you a little insight into what our clustering does and how to configure it easily.Simple Failover Cluster
The most common setup is two PRTG servers running “side-by-side” in a single failover cluster. The first node is the Master Node and is responsible for the configuration, management, alerting, and reporting. If this PRTG instance should fail, e.g. due to a server crash or connectivity issues, the second node (i.e. the Failover Node) takes over the master role and continues the monitoring until the original Master Node is back online.