Filter Setup

Here you can, first of all, select to Monitor All Traffic that passes through this device (default setting). The other option is to Filter Traffic by various parameters.

Note: Filtering traffic can become quite complex and is only recommended for experienced users. For most users simply choosing Monitor All Traffic should be fine.

When enabling filtering you must supply two rulesets for inclusion and exclusion of traffic. For this reason the window is divided into two sections – Include Ruleset and Exclude Ruleset.

Include means that data packets that meet the settings of this filter will be included in PRTG’s monitoring – as long as they are not filtered by an Exclude rule.

Click on Help for detailed description of the various rules that can be used:

You can also click on Library to choose an item from the filter library:

Note: The items from the Filter Library can be edited using the Extras menu.

Click Next in order to go to the Protocol selection screen: