System Settings
System Settings
In the Start with Windows section, you can define whether the program is to run as a service (under Windows 2000/XP/2003 only).
Running a program “as a service” means that the program is always run when the computer is powered on, regardless of somebody being logged on or not. Only this way can it be ensured that monitoring is running all the time, which is necessary to cover 24 hours each day.
If this checkbox is checked the program will continue operating as a “service” even when you close the Windows GUI or log off from your Windows machine. It will also start monitoring immediately after powering on your machine.
It is strongly recommended to use this feature to ensure 100% coverage of your monitoring!
In the Database Backup & Maintenance section you can change database parameters:
You can choose to do a daily backup of the monitoring data by enabling Backup yesterday’s monitoring data… and providing a folder for the backup.
Using the backup function will give you a zipped file containing all collected monitoring data for a particular day. The backup for the previous day will be created as soon as a new day begins.
To keep the database from growing endlessly you can also enable Purge data after and choose a number of days that PRTG should keep the data in the database.
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