PRTG Network Monitor Version History

To update your PRTG installation to the latest version use the "Auto-Update" feature: simply navigate to Setup | Auto Update in your installation. Or you can obtain the latest version from the PRTG download page!

Please note that automated upgrading from V9 to V12 using autoupdate will not be made available until May 22nd 2012. If you want to upgrade from V9 to V12 before that date you please download the new installer manually from the download page.

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Manual: Using the "Software Auto-Update" function of PRTG

Updating From PRTG 7, 8, or 9 to PRTG 12?

There are a couple of important changes, including sensors that will stop working (and must be recreated), changes to the geo maps and some other topics. Please read our knowledge base article Updating from Version 7, 8, or 9 to Version 12? Read this important message!

May 23rd 2012 - Version 12.2.1.1923/1924

• Bugfix: Some customers using multibyte languages experienced scrambled object names
• Bugfix: French translation of PRTG did not work for some users
• Bugfix: Some customers using Active Directory integration had login problems
• Bugfix: Postdata in http transaction sensors did not work properly
• Bugfix: VMware metascan with improved timeout management
• Bugfix: File sensors support wildcards (as in version 9)
• Bugfix: Geomaps did not work in the mobile interface
• Updated manual and several minor fixes

May 9th 2012 - Version 12.2.1.1768 (New Major Version)

News and Changes

• New Build, delivery, and test system as well as "Continuous Rollout"
  • We have redesigned our development, build, and delivery process completely
  • This allows us to deliver new features and bug fixes faster and with short release cycles while maintaining maximum stability and reliability
  • User can choose between different channels: "Stable", "Preview", and "Canary"
  • See blog entry: Version 12 of PRTG will introduce "Continuous Rollout"
• Simplified installation and the new „ Configuration Guru"
• WebGUI Design „Facelift"
• Toplist Visualizations display the observed traffic pattern in a beautiful and easy to understand graph
  
  • Note: TopTalkers is now more detailed
• Improved and interactive geo maps
  • PRTG now supports several map data providers
    
    • Map Quest (free) - This is our recommended option
    • Nokia Maps (free service)
    • Cloud Made (free service, API key required)
    • Google (using the static maps API (like in PRTG 9), free service, API key required)
  • You can now position the markers on the maps manually with the mouse or by entering an address or by entering geo coordinates
  • You can now zoom and move the maps
  • There are no limitations for the number of markers on a map any more (except for potentials performance limitations with hundreds of markers or more)
  • See blog entry: Introducing the New Geo Maps of PRTG 12

• Sensors
  • Application Sensors
    • New: VMware Host Server Health Sensor monitors the health of a VMware host server via SOAP. It will show an overview of your host servers' states, just as known from the vCenter console ("green" / "warning" / "error").
      
      • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
    • New: WMI Sharepoint Process Sensor monitors a sharepoint process via WMI
      
      • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
    • New: WMI IIS Application Sensor (monitors TotalBytesReceived, TotalBytesSent, TotalGetRequests, TotalPostRequests, TotalAnonymousUsers, TotalFilesReceived/Sent, and other metrics of IIS, using WMI)
      
      • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
  • Hardware Sensors
    
    • New: SNMP Cisco ASA VPN Connections Sensor (monitors the active VPN connections on a Cisco ASA firewall via SNMP)
    • New: SNMP Cisco ASA VPN Traffic Sensor (monitors the traffic of permanent VPN IPsec connections via SNMP) and alerts if a connection is not established
      
      • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
    • New: Fritz!Box WAN Interface Sensor (monitors the popular AVM internet access router for SOHOs and small businesses in Europe)
      
      • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
  • New: Google Analytics Sensor (gets traffic data for a website from Google Analytics, makes it easy to use this data in PRTG's maps, e.g. for office dashboards)
  • New: WMI Remote Ping Sensor (measures PING times from a remote computer)
  • New: SIP Options Ping Sensor (monitors whether a SIP server (e.g. VoIP telephony system) will accept a call and will be able to forward it to the next hop); the sensor will show an error if the device does not accept calls or if the device is not able to route calls)
    
    • See blog entry: Introducing the New Sensor Types of PRTG 12
  • New: Xen Host Sensor. Monitors CPU, memory, and network usage, as well as other vital system parameters on XEN hosts.
  • Rewrite: Amazon Cloudwatch Sensor (monitors instances of EC2, EBS, RDS DB, ELB, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache in the Amazon AWS Cloud)
  • Rewrite: Xen Virtual Machine Sensor. Monitors CPU, memory, and network usage, as well as other vital system parameters of Xen virtual machines.
  • Rewrite: SMTP Sensor now automatically supports TLS
  • Improved Active Directory Integration (among others PRTG will now get the email address of new users from the active directory, when the AD integration is used)
  • Improved: IMAP Sensor can now be used to monitor backup processes and other scheduled processes by looking for specific emails (e.g. by topic) in a mailbox and checking that the most recent email is not older than x days
  • Improved: SSH sensors now support Solaris 9 and 10
  • Discontinued: old VMware Host sensors must be manually replaced with new versions
  • Discontinued: old XEN server sensors must be manually replaced with new versions

• Enterprise Console
  
  • Improved: Now covers about 90% of WebGUI functionality

• Other changes
  
  • Improved web server security
  • PRTG now handles all strings internally as UTF-8 (including web server and emails), this means that you can now mix different languages, charsets and single-byte as well as double-byte strings inside one installation