Video Tutorials for PRTG Network Monitor
The Paessler support team has recorded some videos to help you start monitor your network with PRTG. The topics cover installation and auto-discovery, setting up notifications, and background information on using remote probes in distributed networks. Lean back a few minutes and enjoy!
Webcast: PRTG 9 New Features
This webcast recording shows what's new in PRTG 9: Redesigned Ajax web interface, new device tree functionalities including drag&drop sorting and sensor cloning, new manual sensor selection, new Library feature, new way of setting notification triggers easily, Active Directory integration for PRTG user management, automatic PRTG updates, and the new Enterprise Console with extended functionalities.
What is PRTG? An Introduction.
This video shows you how PRTG Network Monitor will help you to improve network performance and avoid network issues.
Installation and Auto-Discovery
This tutorial is an introduction on how to install PRTG Network Monitor and setting up sensors using PRTG's auto-discovery.
Core Server and Remote Probes
This animation video describes how PRTG monitors your local network as well as remote networks using different types of probes.
Notifications
This tutorial describes PRTG's notifications and how those can be used to make the administration of your network easier.
Video Tutorials Made by PRTG-Users
Some committed PRTG users have created video tutorials to help other users start with PRTG, explaining their custom-made PRTG add-ons, but also to describe and solve complex technical tasks.
Jake Wright
Jake calls himself a "teenaged geek". At his Blog (http://jakewright.net)
he offers 2 video tutorials for PRTG newbies:
How to Monitor a Server
Jake‘s first video describes how fast and easy you can deploy the monitoring of a server using PRTG.
Gerard Feijth
Gerard has been accompanying us for a long time – on the Paessler Google Code platform he offers quite a few custom-made PRTG tools and extensions for download. His video tutorials address advanced users providing assistance for Gerard’s tools, as well as with creating own add-ons and tools for PRTG.
Sensor Overview
This video tutorial introduces Gerard’s tray notifier tool for PRTG that is available among the PRTG add-ons: http://code.google.com/p/prtg-addons
Custom Sensor
How to integrate a custom EXE / script sensor into PRTG using Gerard’s tray notifier tool introduced in the “Sensor Overview” video.
Ping as Master
How to define a ping sensor as master, allowing to avoid redundant notifications. If you have not defined a ping sensor as master for your devices, it might happen that in case of a failure all sensors for this device trigger an alarm.
SNMP Sensor 1 and 2
How to setup a SNMP Library sensor for a USV (part 1) or a PDU (part 2). An example for setting up a device sensor based on a MIB – the sensors described in this video can also be set up easier using the PRTG auto-discovery.
Roggy
„Just another techie, pulling things apart to find out how they work :)” – that’s what Roggy writes at his blog (http://roggyblog.blogspot.com). Roggy addresses real networking experts in his videos. He describes complex tasks which he solves with his extraordinary know-how and PRTG.
Sniffing using vSphere and PRTG Redux
How to monitor VoIP traffic in a virtualized environment (vSphere) using PRTG’s packet sniffing sensors and virtual NICs - interesting for advanced technicians. (2 parts, 40 minutes)
Using Vyatta (OpenVPN Client Specific Subnets) and PRTG to monitor Customers
Interesting for service providers: How an MSP can gain full access on a PRTG server that runs in a customer’s network to monitor the customer’s network remotely. (2 parts, 80 minutes)
