PRTG Network Monitoring Tool PRTG is a network monitoring tool that helps you to ensure that your computer systems are running smoothly and that no outages occur. Network monitoring is also important to increase the efficiency of your network by knowing bandwidth and resource consumption.

2. PAESSLER ROUTER TRAFFIC
GRAPHER (PRTG)
• PRTG NETWORK MONITOR BY PAESSLER IS NETWORK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE THAT MONITORS
BANDWIDTH, USAGE, AND AVAILABILITY. THIS TECHNOLOGY, WHICH RUNS ON A WINDOWS MACHINE ON
THE NETWORK, CAN DISCOVER DEVICES AND COLLECT VARIOUS STATISTICS AUTOMATICALLY.

3. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING PRTG?
• IN ADDITION TO DISPLAYING SENSORS BY TAG, PRTG ALLOWS YOU TO DISPLAY ALL SENSORS OF A
SPECIFIC TYPE. BECAUSE THERE ARE OVER 250 DIFFERENT SENSOR TYPES, THIS IS A CONVENIENT WAY
TO VIEW THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE.

4. SNMP MONITORING
• WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE AN SNMP TRAFFIC SENSOR ON A SINGLE HOST OR SERVER TO MEASURE
THE BANDWIDTH USED BY THIS SPECIFIC DEVICE. SNMP TRAFFIC SENSORS ON A SWITCH OR ROUTER
DISPLAY THE BANDWIDTH USAGE ON A SPECIFIC PORT. YOU MUST CONFIGURE ONE SENSOR PER PORT.

5. WHAT IS A PRTG MAP?
• WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF NETWORK MONITORING ?
• PROTOCOLS THAT ARE COMMONLY USED TO MONITOR
NETWORK AVAILABILITY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL (ICMP). AN ICMP
PING IS A SIMPLE NETWORK ACCESSIBILITY TEST. SIMPLE
NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (SNMP).
MAPS IN PRTG ARE COMMONLYREFERRED TO AS
DASHBOARDS. CREATE CUSTOM DASHBOARDS
AS HTML WEB PAGES THAT DISPLAY YOUR
MONITORING DATA IN THE MANNER YOU PREFER.
VISUAL ELEMENTS SUCH AS SENSOR STATUS
ICONS, DATA TABLES, GRAPHS, GEOGRAPHICAL
MAPS, SUNBURSTS, CUSTOM IMAGES, AND
OTHERS CAN BE USED.