Originally published on January 07, 2008 by Dirk Paessler
Last updated on January 23, 2024
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4 minute read
Hello, nice to have you here.
You've found a real oldie but goodie here on our blog. 🕺🏼
The original content is from 2008, and a lot has happened since then.
Our monitoring software is now called Paessler PRTG and is available in different editions:
To extend the native monitoring function of PRTG to other platforms like Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) as well as ARM-based devices and Docker, check out this article:
🔥Have you already tried the Multi-Platform Probe?🔥
You do not need a Windows based computer (and a Windows license) to use most of PRTG's features. You can also run PRTG Traffic Grapher 6.x on Linux. Using the "Wine Library" (which emulates Windows system calls) you can run PRTG like most other Windows apps on Linux systems. Of course some hardware/driver-based features like Packet Sniffing do not work. For this tutorial the following steps will
- create a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 6,
- install Ubuntu 7.10 onto the virtual machine,
- install Wine 0.9.52 onto Ubuntu and
- install PRTG 6.x onto Ubuntu/Wine
Afterwards you will be able to use most of PRTG's functionality under Linux (mainly the SNMP based monitoring, latency monitoring, reporting, notifications and the internal webserver). Here is a screenshot of the Windows GUI and the browser interface on Ubuntu 7.10 (click the image to zoom in):
You there!
