Scan your hardware
with PRTG!
Know the status
of your hardware
Be alerted ASAP when
your hardware fails
Stay on top of
your system health
Why do we need hardware scanning?
Hardware is the first layer in an infrastructure organization – if that fails, then everything else from the servers, to the operating systems, to the applications and the processes fail. Your hardware has multiple possible points for failure and it is too important to reply on a human to check it. Having a monitoring system that scans your hardware at regular intervals is crucial to the survival of your organization.
Keep a constant eye on your network – even while on the go
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
How PRTG defines sensors
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, e.g. the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, the free space of a disk drive. On average you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG uses sensors to make network monitoring easy
PRTG uses sensors to scan or poll your devices through a specific protocol to gather the relevant data. PRTG has multiple vendor specific hardware sensors out of the box that covers monitoring of system health as well as individual components. In addition, we have generic SNMP and WMI sensors. PRTG also allows for the importing of MIB files to extend beyond our out of the box offerings so that additional hardware may be scanned by PRTG.
System health sensors
PRTG includes system health sensors for
- Dell PowerEdge
- SNMP HPE ProLiant System Health
- SNMP HPE BladeSystem Enclosure System Health
- SNMP IBM System X System Health
- SNMP Juniper NS System Health
- SNMP LenovoEMC System Health
- SNMP NetApp System Health
- SNMP QNAP System Health
- SNMP SonicWall System Health and
- SNMP Synology System Health.
These sensors have multiple channels to give the hardware status of several components within your device or server.
Even more vendor-specific hardware sensors
SNMP Hardware Status sensor
There is also a generic SNMP Hardware Status that can scan and monitor individual components through SNMP if none of our vendor specific sensors match your hardware.
Several disk sensors
PRTG also includes several vendor specific individual disk sensors such as
- NetApp Physical Disk Sensor
- SNMP Cisco UCS Physical Disk Sensor
- SNMP Dell EqualLogic Physical Disk Sensor
- SNMP Dell PowerEdge Physical Disk Sensor
- SNMP HPE ProLiant Physical Disk Sensor
as well as several others.
WMI Vital System Data (V2) sensor
With the WMI Vital System Data (V2) Sensor PRTG can monitor the performance of your vital system parameters. It can gather metrics such as CPU usage (processor, privileged, user time and queue length), memory (page faults, reads and writes per second as well as committed bytes), and physical disk (time in percent, reads/writes per second and queue length).
SNMP Printer sensor
PRTG can also monitor your SNMP-enabled printer – it can even alert you when your toner is low!
Additional PRTG features
You can even get more detailed hardware scanner information by importing your MIB files into PRTG – you can select all or individual OIDs to get granular monitoring on your hardware!
You can see the full list of our Hardware Parameter Sensors here.
PRTG offers real time notifications so when components are non-responsive or hit a defined threshold that you set you can be made aware of it as soon as possible. PRTG also has the ability for you to create custom maps/dashboards and reports on your hardware sensors so when your hardware is scanned you can view the data in a variety of ways.
A sneak peek at monitoring with PRTG
Sensor Live Traffic
PRTG "Sunburst" View
Overview of SNMP traffic
We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler AG conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Trusted by 500,000 users and recognized
by industry analysts as a leader
“Fantastic network and infrastructure monitoring solution that is easy to deploy and easier still to use. Simply the best available.”
“Software is absolutely perfect, Support is superior. Meets all needs and requirements, this is a must have solution if you are needing any form of monitoring.”
“The tool excels at its primary focus of being a unified infrastructure management and network monitoring service.”
Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s IT partners
Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
With the combination of PRTG and Insys, the monitoring specialist Paessler and the industrial gateway manufacturer INSYS icom offer a practical possibility to merge IT and OT.
INSYS icom
“Easy to implement and configure with good technical support.”
R. v. S., ICT Manager at Heinen & Hopman Eng BV
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
Still not convinced?
More than 500,000 sysadmins love PRTG
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Still not convinced?
Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Try Paessler PRTG for free
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free. Start now with your trial.
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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 23.2.84.1566 (May 24th, 2023) |
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Hosting |
Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages |
English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
Supported Vendors & Applications |
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