Description

Topics Covered:

• PRTG Installation and Configuration
• PRTG Administration Tool
• A First Look at PRTG
• PRTG Version Numbers and Release Channels
• PRTG User Interfaces
• User Administration
• PRTG Licensing
• PRTG Sizing – Planning Large PRTG Installations
• Working with PRTG: Object Hierarchy and Device Templates
• Working with PRTG: Libraries
• Monitoring Bandwith with SNMP and WMI
• Custom Sensors
• Custom SNMP and Library Sensors
• Script Sensors
• Sensor Detection Features
• Debugging PRTG Learning to fish
• Working with PRTG: Dependencies
• Working with PRTG: Limits and Triggers
• Working with PRTG: Introduction to Notifications
• Advanced Notifications
• Reporting in PRTG
• PRTG Remote Probes
• Working with PRTG: Geo Maps
• PRTG Maps
• Working with PRTG: Priorities, Favourites, Tags
• Working with PRTG: The Ticketing System
• Review: Licenses and Sizing
• PRTG Architecture – Pros and Cons of Different Options
• PRTG Overload Remedies – What to do when PRTG is Overloaded
• PRTG Administration
• PRTG Clustering
• PRTG Network Settings
• Bandwidth Monitoring with xFlow and Packet Sniffing
• SNMP Trap Receiver and Syslog Receiver
• Custom Sensors – Factory Sensor
• Customising and API
• Monitoring QoS and VoIP
• Monitoring Virtualisation Environments
• Monitoring Email Servers
• Monitoring Backup Processes
• PRTG Certificaton

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, SNMP and related concepts.

Datasheets

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