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!
Regular Webinars ''Working with PRTG Network Monitor'': Technical Insights
Our technical support team would like to invite you to join one of our technical oriented webinars.
PRTG Network Monitor:
Your Personal IT Watchdog!
Are you wondering, what a good watchdog can do for your IT infrastructure? Our video will tell you.
PRTG Basics
Application Monitoring
Mail Server Monitoring Sharepoint & IIS Monitoring Backup Monitoring Windows Services & Security Monitoring Database Monitoring Web Application Monitoring Monitoring various services Visualizing Data Using Libraries and Maps
General Overview
See how PRTG looks like and learn how it works. Good for a first impression of PRTG. Helps also for a quick start if you're a new user.
Installation
This tutorial is an introduction on how to install PRTG Network Monitor.
How to Configure Lookups in PRTG
This video tutorial explains in detail how to configure your own lookup files.
PRTG - Server Administrator
In the PRTG Server Administrator program you can define different system settings for your PRTG core installation, e.g. restart services, and view log information.
PRTG Probe Administrator
In the PRTG Probe Administrator program you can define different system settings of your PRTG probe installation, e.g. configure remote probe connections, restart services, and view log information.
PRTG - Autoupdate
See how to make an administrator's life easy using the automatic update function built into PRTG.
Configuration Guru
The Configuration Guru guides you through the configuration process of PRTG. This video tutorial shows how to use the Guru and explains the different steps of the configuration.
Notifications and Trigger
This tutorial describes PRTG's notifications and how those can be used to make the administration of your network easier.
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.
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.
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)
