PRTG Probe Administrator

The PRTG Probe Administrator can be started from the "PRTG Network Monitor" program group in the Start menu and allows configuring a probe running on the local PC. This can be the "Local Probe" for a PC running a full PRTG installation, or one of the remote probes when only the probe installer was used on a PC. The PRTG Probe Administrator is divided into four tabs:

Probe Control

Under the Probe Control tab you can define:

• Name of the probe (the name will be shown in the web interface).

• Reconnect Time (in seconds) which is the time between two connection attempts when the Core can't be reached.

• Server Connection: The server's IP address or DNS name, as well as the server's port and the probe's access key (these settings must match the settings in the PRTG Server Administrator, see also section Multiple Probes and Remote Probes).

• Probe GID, the unique identifier for each probe (use with extreme caution!).

• Outgoing IP for monitoring requests: Choose the IP address that all outgoing monitoring requests should use. The setting "auto" is recommended (e.g. it automatically chooses the right IP on multi-homed systems).
• Probe Administration Tool Language: With this setting you can change the language of the PRTG Probe Administrator. Select a language of your choice (English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese). A restart of the probe service will be necessary. Please note: You can set the language of the PRTG web interface in the PRTG Server Administrator.

Service Control

Under the Service Control tab you can install/uninstall, as well as start/stop the probe service.

Files/Directories

Under the "Files/Directories" tab you can select a path specifying where probe data is to be stored. You can further show the probe log files and open the probe's log file directory.

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