PRTG Manual: Port Range Sensor
The Port Range sensor monitors a network service by connecting to various TCP/IP ports. It tries to connect to the specified TCP/IP port numbers of a device in succession and waits for the device to accept each request.
Optionally, you can set limits in the channel settings. This way, you can get alerts about open and closed ports.
Port Range Sensor
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
- Dutch: Poortbereik
- French: Plage de port
- German: Portbereich
- Japanese: ポート範囲
- Portuguese: Intervalo de portas
- Russian: Диапазон портов
- Simplified Chinese: 端口范围
- Spanish: Rango de puerto
- This sensor does not support Secure Remote Password (SRP) ciphers.
- This sensor supports the IPv6 protocol.
- This sensor has a very low performance impact.
You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.
The Add Sensor dialog appears when you manually add a new sensor to a device. It only shows the settings that are required to create the sensor. You can change nearly all settings on the sensor's Settings tab after creation.
Click the Settings tab of a sensor to change its settings.
Basic Sensor Settings
Setting |
Description |
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Sensor Name |
Enter a name to identify the sensor. |
Parent Tags |
Shows tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.
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Tags |
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
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Priority |
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority ( |
Usually, a sensor connects to the IP Address/DNS Name of the parent device. See the device settings for details. For some sensors, you can explicitly define the monitoring target in the sensor settings.
Port Range Specific
Setting |
Description |
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Timeout (Sec.) |
Enter a timeout in seconds for the request. Enter an integer. The maximum timeout value is 900 seconds (15 minutes).
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Port-by-Port Delay (ms) |
Define how long the sensor waits in milliseconds (ms) to go to the next port while it runs through all specified ports. |
Port Range Selection Method |
Define whether you want to monitor all ports within a range or if you want to monitor several individual ports:
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Range Start |
This setting is only visible if you select Port range above. Enter the port number where the scan starts. Enter an integer. |
Range End |
This setting is only visible if you select Port range above. Enter the port number where the scan ends. Enter an integer. |
Port List |
This setting is only visible if you select List of ports above. Enter the numbers of the ports that the sensor tries to connect to. Enter one or more individual integers. Enter each port in one line. |
If Value Changes |
Define what the sensor does if the number of closed ports or open ports changes:
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Sensor Display
Setting |
Description |
|---|---|
Primary Channel |
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
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Graph Type |
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
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Stack Unit |
This setting is only visible if you enable Stack channels on top of each other as Graph Type. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so. |
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click 
under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.
Scanning Interval
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Scanning Interval.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
Access Rights
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel |
Description |
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Available |
The time until requests to ports are accepted in milliseconds (msec)
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Closed Ports |
The number of closed ports |
Downtime |
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status in percent. |
Open Ports |
The number of open ports |
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