What can I do with PRTG's Sensor Factory Sensors?

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I would like to know what functions I can use with "Factory Sensors".

  • What are "Factory Sensors" for?
  • How do I set them up?
  • What can I configure there?

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Created on Feb 5, 2010 12:23:21 PM by  Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support] (21,383) 3 3

Last change on Feb 5, 2010 12:35:39 PM by  Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support] (21,383) 3 3



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Using Sensor Factory Sensors

Sensor Factory sensors are mainly used to compute data provided by multiple sensors and display the information in a single graph / data table. This information can be provided individually for any particular sensor channel, as an aggregated value, as a computational line based on simple arithmetic or as a value defined by one of the functions available for Sensor Factory sensors.

Sensor Factory sensors are added under a device in the same way as any other sensor. Sensor Factory sensors can, however, include information derived from sensors belonging to different devices.

Further functions allow to calculate the following values for an individual or multiple sensors:

  • minimum and maximum values
  • average values
  • percentage values

One can also insert horizontal lines based on fixed values for visualization purposes.

Detailed information on Sensor Factory sensors and their configuration options is availble in the user manual

Created on Feb 12, 2010 2:59:10 PM by  Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (6,074) 3 3

Last change on Jun 24, 2010 8:14:50 AM by  Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support] (21,383) 3 3



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Well, the manual does describe this technically, but it doesn't provide much, if anything for examples, which would be helpful.

It seems to allow you to add the values from various sensors. For example I wanted to get the aggregate total of 3 sensor input and output.

What I used was:

  1. 1:XO-in
    Channel(2123,0)+Channel(2103,0)+Channel(2163,0)
  2. 2:XO-out
    Channel(2123,1)+Channel(2103,1)+Channel(2163,1)
  3. 3
    100000

These are collected at the remote routers where they all come in to the data center in a single connection. This connection is smaller than the sum of the allowed traffic of these three, so we need to know if we hit the ceiling which is 100meg.

Created on May 24, 2010 6:18:04 PM by  bhanson (0)

Last change on May 26, 2010 2:39:54 PM by  Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support] (21,383) 3 3



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