Where can I find the GID if restoring a computer

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One the computers I am monitoring experienced a hard drive failure. I need to reinstall the prtg probe on this computer. I want to connect the freshly installed probe to the original instance in the server. I know I need to replace the GID in the service with the GID it had before. Where can I find the GID it had before? Is that stored on the server somewhere?

gid probe recover

Created on Sep 16, 2010 11:54:01 PM by  Laurie Collins (100) 1 1



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Dear Laurie,

the GID of a Probe is stored in the configuration file "PRTG Configuration.dat" on the PRTG Core Server (see How and where does PRTG store its data?). You can open this XML-File with any editor and then simply search for the exact name of the probe, without the content from the brackets "(... Probe on ...)". Please see the following example:

                <name>
                  Local probe
                </name>
                <ownerid>
                  100
                </ownerid>
                <position>
                  10
                </position>
                <priority>
                  3
                </priority>
                <probegid>
                  {E014D5DB-08D9-49BC-8298-AF37EA363F8A}

Created on Sep 17, 2010 1:02:26 PM by  Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support] (15,450) 3 1



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