Turning off all SUM channels in a PRTG Network Monitor configuration

You can turn off all the sum channels in a PRTG Network Monitor configuration by editing the XML file where PRTG stores its configuration data. Here is what you need to do:

Step1: Stop the PRTG Core server

Step2: Make a backup copy of PRTG Configuration.dat (!)

Step3: Load "PRTG Configuration.dat" file from PRTG's data folder into a text editor

Now two sets of search and replace must be made (you will need to use regular expressions to do this):

Step4: Turn off all SUM channels

Search for all sum channels' "show" XML-property

<sumchannel * <show>*1*</show>

and replace the <show> tag with

<show>0</show>

Search for all sum channels' "showchart" XML-property

<showchart>*1*</showchart>

and replace the <showchart> tag with

<showchart>0</showchart>

Step5: At the end save the XML file and

Step6: Restart PRTG Core Server process.

You can of course also use an XML editor to do this.