Questions tagged [prtg]

PRTG is an extensible network monitoring product from Paessler AG. This tag should be used primarily for the API side of this product and programming custom-built sensors, rather than question about the product itself.

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Monitoring connectivity for Slack and PagerDuty

We are using PRTG to monitor a number of internal resources, and we have set it up to alert us on a Slack channel and/or via PagerDuty (depending on severity) using their respective APIs. Considering that Slack and PagerDuty are external to us, we…
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How do I convert a JSON file into a list of dicts?

So I have a JSON file with the following contents: {"prtg-version":"17.1.29.1531","treesize":8,"probes": [ {"objid":1,"name":"ASHBURN CORE"}, {"objid":30201,"name":"GRAND RAPIDS PROBE"}, {"objid":2,"name":"Cluster…
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Deleting files with PowerShell script

I have a script in PowerShell that scans a directory of folders that are named with the following convention: yyyymmdd. It scans the directory and finds all the folders that are current and up to one week old, then copies them over to another…
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URL object json NAGIOS

I have a question, I work with many monitoring web, if you know PRTG you can make a URL that returns the status of the various sensors and alarm messages, and process this information in different web graphic pages; Now I have been asked to do the…
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PRTG custom script returns valid XML but dashboard complains

I have a PRTG custom script in the EXEXML directory which has been configured within the PRTG dashboard. When I run it manually, I get the following output which, as far as I'm aware, is perfectly valid:
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Returning strings from a PRTG custom sensor

I'm trying to develop a custom VBScript sensor for the PRTG monitoring tool and the interface seems fairly simple, returning just a 32-bit integral value and a status string such as with: WScript.echo "0:January 23, 2015" However, only the integer…
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Deserialize JSON from API response

I am using an API called "PRTG" that is a server monitoring service. After making a call for all sensors on a device, I get this response in Fiddler: { "prtg-version": "14.2.10.2114", "treesize": 6, "sensors": [ { "objid": 6277, …
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SELECT PercentTimeinGC FROM Win32_PerfRawData_NETFramework_NETCLRMemory

hope you are well. Goal: extract WMI data FROM Win32_PerfRawData_NETFramework_NETCLRMemory PercentTimeinGC, like shown in perfmon = ".NET CLR Memory / % Time in GC" Enviroment IIS 7, Worker process Garden (4) (ASP .NET4.0 app pools) (4xw3wp.exe…
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Is NServiceBus monitoring agnostic to the transport layer?

We want to use NServiceBus monitoring feature, but we are using SQL Server on the transport layer instead of MSMQ. I was wondering if NServiceBus monitoring would still work ? http://docs.particular.net/nservicebus/monitoring-nservicebus-endpoints…
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MySQL DB size query does not show the correct size of the DB

I have set up a central syslog that stores the logs of 6 servers in a DB. After that I set a MySQL sensor, in PRTG, for the size of the DB. Although data is written to the database every second, the sensor has been showing the same size, 672 MB, for…
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One device can be pinged but an exact same other can't?

In need of some common sense. I searched the net about below described issue but I couldn't get any clear or related information to solve it myself, so I reach out to this community, hopefully not bothering you with yet another question about…
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Python Advance script sensor PRTG ssh connection

I'm developing a project, it's about using the advance script sensors of PRTG. Testing the ssh connection in visual studio works fine but when I use the script in the sensor doesn't. I think I have to pass the authentication params in the sensor and…
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Monitoring Rundeck jobs using PRTG

I have a Debian machine running Rundeck v4.11.0 and multiple jobs. I also have a Windows machine running PRTG v23.1.82.2175, monitoring various aspects of the Rundeck machine, like CPU, Memory, Disk etc. There is no agent installed on the Rundeck…
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Get instance of class with private constructor for test

during testing I need an instance of the following class public class WmiServiceTarget : SensorTarget that has the following constructor: private WmiServiceTarget(string raw): base(raw) { DisplayName = components[1]; …
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I need help creating a shell script to tell me if a process is up and running so I can monitor that process in PRTG

I'm using a monitoring system called PRTG to monitor our environment. PRTG KB suggested using a script to monitor processes called SSH Script. The script needs to be stored in /var/prtg/scripts. I found a script that someone used for…