Moving a Probe

Moving a remote probe to a new host is quite easy (especially if you intend to keep the IP). Please follow these steps:

1. Install the remote probe on the new machine, and
2. Configure it to send to the core server (IP and Port of the Core Server).
3. The next (and most important) thing is to copy the GID from the old remote probe to this new one. Save these settings.
4. You can now shut down the old probe PC, and power up the new one under the old IP. If the new server has a new IP, please make sure that this new IP is allowed to establish a probe connection to the core server. You can do this in PRTG web interface's main menu under "Setup | System Setup | Probe Management".
5. The Core server will send out the 'configuration' to the remote probe with the information what to monitor.
6. Nearly all sensors will keep their historic data and also continue to work. A few sensors directly from the probe device might not continue to work, these are often Packet Sniffers, WMI Network Card Sensors (and sometimes other WMI Sensors) due to hardware differences.

See Also

• How can I move my PRTG installation to another computer?