May 14th, 2008
I do understand that - being used to PRTG 6 - looking at PRTG 7 may let you frown at the first glance. And yes, maybe the new software isn’t the kind of breakthrough user interface that we have tried to create for each and every user. There may be some areas where PRTG 6 still is quicker solution.
But if you stay with PRTG 6 you will miss so much! Let me take you on a short guided tour trip so you can see why we did make many substantial changes to the software, why we created new concepts and what unbelievable power is now built into PRTG 7!
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May 9th, 2008
This another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software “PRTG Network Monitor 7” which is currently undergoing a public beta test.
The hierarchical list of sensors is not only used to group sensors to organize them, there is also an important aspect involved that we call “Inheritance”.
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May 8th, 2008
This another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software “PRTG Network Monitor 7” which is currently undergoing a public beta test.
In PRTG Network Monitor the actual monitoring is performed by “Sensors”. One of these sensors always monitors one single aspect of a network device, e.g.
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May 7th, 2008
Today we have published a new knowledgebase article that summarizes the differences between PRTG Network Monitor 7 and its predecessor PRTG Traffic Grapher 6 - from the perspective of a PRTG 6 user.
The new version 7 of PRTG brings together the functionalities of PRTG 6 and IPCheck 5 into one concise network monitoring application and adds a number of new features, especially some functions to ease and automate management for larger networks.
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May 6th, 2008
Here is another posting of my series of introductory blog posts about our new software “PRTG Network Monitor 7” which is currently undergoing a public beta test.
The main layout of PRTG Network Monitor’s web-based user interface consists of the Global Status Bar at the top, the Header Area with the main menu and quick-search box below it and finally the main page content.
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May 5th, 2008
This blog post continues my series of introductory blog posts about our new software “PRTG Network Monitor 7” which is currently undergoing a public beta test.
PRTG Network Monitor System Architecture
PRTG Network Monitor consists of three main parts:
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May 2nd, 2008
Over the next few weeks I will publish a number of introductory blog posts about our new software “PRTG Network Monitor 7” which is currently undergoing a public beta test.
Let’s begin with a short overview of what PRTG 7 is:
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April 15th, 2008
After so many months of busy development work everybody at Paessler AG is proud to present the first publicly available beta version of PRTG Network Monitor 7, our new flagship monitoring product!
The new version 7 of PRTG brings together the functionalities of PRTG 6 and IPCheck 5 into one concise network monitoring application and adds a number of new features, especially some functions to ease and automate management for larger networks.
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April 9th, 2008
The latest version 6.2.1 of PRTG Traffic Grapher - which we have released today - contains some changes that will allow Windows Server 2008 to run PRTG 6. Previous versions of PRTG 6 often crashed on Windows 2008.
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March 25th, 2008
Understanding bandwidth and resource consumption is the key to better network performance management - this the main point in my recent article “Put monitoring strategy on offensive” for CommunicationNews magazine.
