We receive questions like this every few days. User of our monitoring products want to know if their ISP or hosting service is actually providing them with the available bandwidth that they are paying for. But measuring the actually available bandwidth is almost impossible.
Let me explain this:
Starting with Version 7.0.8 PRTG Network Monitor (currently in public beta testing) includes a web-based API that enables external programs to have access information from the monitoring database and to manipulate the object database of PRTG. The API is HTTP based and uses a set of URLs to access the data.
With version 7.0.8 (currently in beta) we have added a new user interface that is optimized for the Apple iPhone. This feature enables the user to quickly check the status of his servers and sensors on the road.
We have just uploaded the latest version 7.0.7 of PRTG Network Monitor. It mainly includes various bugfixes and smaller enhancements based on the feedback of our users from the last weeks. New features are HTTP/1.1 compatible compression for the webserver (this speeds up the website usage experience especially over WAN connections) and the option to send notifications to a PRTG user group.
Please visit the detailed history and download the latest version.
The whitepaper illuminates the importance of network management to many areas of IT operational risk management. Certainly its role in managing potential network problems such as switch failures and overloads is a major reason for investing in network management software.
However, it also can have a role in identifying other potential problems including the download of inappropriate material on business networks and prioritizing various classes of network traffic for optimal business performance. In a world in which even sub-second delays in transactional traffic can cost, these can be crucial elements to address.
In PRTG Network Monitor 7 when adding custom Netflow or Packet Sniffing sensors, you will notice a field entitled “Channel Definition”. In this field you need to provide the channel definitions (one channel per entry) that allow you to account the monitored traffic in various ways.
This Knowledgebase article explains the details.
We have uploaded a new version of PRTG 7. This version includes new features, usability improvements and a number of bugfixes.
Besides a number of bugfixes and changes we have added the following new features:
If you want to include graphs that always show live traffic pattern (or other measured values) from PRTG 7 in your own webpages (e.g. Intranet), you have three options that use different authentication methods.
A new Knowledge Base Article explains the details.
Today we have published a new Knowledge Base article that lists all available placeholders that you can use in “subjects” and “bodies” of notifications (i.e. emails, SMS, EXE-calls, etc.).
Based on the feedback from our users we have improved PRTG Network Monitor since the initial release last week and have today uploaded V7.0.5 with a number of bugfixes.