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News From PaesslerApplication Performance Monitoring (APM) with Paessler PRTGThe acronym APM can stand for both Application Performance Management and Application Performance Monitoring. Application Performance Management strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service; it is "the translation of IT metrics into business meaning." Here we deal with Application Performance Monitoring as a subset of any IT monitoring effort in networks of variable size. AXA Gulf insures against application downtime with PaesslerInsurance is a 24/7 business, people need to be able to get in touch at any hour of the day regarding their policies, cover, and claims, so technology downtime is not an option ? the company can?t afford to stand still for even a minute. 3 Tips for monitoring wireless industrial LANsWireless networking is a cornerstone of the ?smart factory? concept, which requires the collection and transferal of data regarding the manufacturing process. While there are several types of wireless technology that can be used for manufacturing ? such as 5G or Bluetooth ? a common approach is industrial wireless LAN. This is what I will focus on in this article: what industrial WLANs are, and tips for monitoring them. Monitoring windCORES (data centers) in wind turbines with PRTGwindCOREs are data centers inside wind turbines. This is a German innovation and is the first of its kind in the world. The windCORES brand belongs to the WestfalenWIND Group, which was founded in 2009. Active all over Germany, this energy provider has around 180 wind turbines and is headquartered in Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2018, it launched a project to set up data centers inside wind turbines. The advantages are clear ? after all, the data centers make use of the existing space and infrastructure of the turbines. What?s more, the energy is supplied directly from above. New PRTG release! Two new sensors and an update for all language files.PRTG 22.4.80.1553 is now available in the stable release channel! This version comes with the experimental NetApp SnapMirror v2 sensor, the experimental Port v2 sensor, and an update for all language files. Taking the Paessler PRTG API to the next levelA central cornerstone of our Paessler PRTG monitoring software is its application programming interface, and our great development teams have been working on the new PRTG API v2 for some time now. In 2021, we released the alpha version of this new API together with the new UI and made it available for testing. In Version 22.4.81, which is due at the end of this year, we plan to drop the recommendation to only use it on test systems and will thus declare it stable enough to be activated on production systems. Then, in early 2023, we plan to declare the first API endpoints as stable, meaning that you can start using the available PRTG API v2 endpoints* for automation and integrations in your production systems. How to easily add and use HPE 3PAR sensors in PRTGTo reliably monitor an HPE 3PAR StoreServ server, Paessler PRTG offers three native sensors, which I introduced some time ago in this article: ?? Let's talk about sensors! HPE 3PAR Storage Server monitoring. Since that article was published, all of the sensors have moved out of beta status and are now fully supported. With this article I will show you how you can easily add and use the three sensors: How to monitor HPE ProLiant servers with Paessler PRTGThis is my fourth article about monitoring physical servers with Paessler PRTG. The first three articles were about Dell PowerEdge, IBM System X and Fujitsu servers. We also recently started recording video tutorials on these topics, so stay tuned! Monitoring data center facilities: Keep an eye on environmental metrics!The complexity of monitoring a data center increases with its size. In addition to monitoring IT components and the network infrastructure, the monitoring of environmental parameters is becoming more and more important. This is because both IT hardware and facilities play a critical role in large data center operations. How Truma uses PRTG to monitor their factory floorIf you?re a camping fanatic in Europe, you have no doubt heard of Truma. Providing accessories for RVs over the past 7 decades or so, they have become a mainstay in the hearts of campers. Many of us here at Paessler are outdoors types, so you can imagine how much we enjoyed digging into how they use our Paessler PRTG monitoring software. We documented it in a case study here. But what was of particular interest to me as someone who writes a lot about PRTG in industrial settings was how they use it in their manufacturing environment. PRTG helps Somnitec AG deliver Swiss IT precisionSwiss cloud and IT service provider Somnitec AG, with the help of the Paessler PRTG experts at CORP-IT, has set up comprehensive monitoring to maximize the reliability of its customers? IT systems. Predictive maintenance - Improve the Performance of your data centerData center availability is one of the most important aspects when downtime can also quickly have a financial impact. In order to detect problems at an early stage and thus avoid downtime, the term "predictive maintenance" becomes increasingly important. In an ideal situation, predictive maintenance allows for the lowest possible maintenance frequency to avoid unscheduled reactive maintenance without incurring the cost of too much preventive maintenance. Increase resiliency of IT environments with KnowledgeRiver and PRTGPaessler PRTG is well known as a monitoring solution for IT network infrastructures of all sizes and provides IT administrators with a holistic view of the overall enterprise IT. But it can also contribute to increasing the transparency of IT services, something that is becoming more important with growing complexity of IT delivery options. This example shows how PRTG together with KnowledgeRiver's data control utility DC360Ocean helped an international bank in UAE shine a light on their IT services. When ?ants? help secure the wireless networkBechtle in Bielefeld, Germany, relies increasingly on PRTG monitoring for its IT service offers, and thereby creates added value for its customers. For Bechtle customer STIEBEL ELTRON, this amounts to a more stable WLAN and more reliable automated guided vehicles (AGVs). How to monitor Fujitsu servers using Paessler PRTGI remember my first physical server I worked with: it was a Fujitsu tower server. It was running Windows Server 2003 and AD DS role. Somehow, I feel sentimental when thinking about it. If you have followed our blog and my previous two articles, you already learnt how to enable SNMP and monitor Dell PowerEdge and IBM System X using PRTG. Now, in this article, my focus is on the Fujitsu servers. |
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You are using the Freeware version of PRTG Network Monitor so you can already cover all aspects of state-of-the-art network monitoring: . This enables you to monitor uptime , traffic and bandwidth usage with only one tool. You can also create comprehensive reports with the integrated reporting and analysis features. This makes PRTG one clear and simple monitoring solution for your entire network. The software runs 24/7 to monitor your network. All you need is a computer with a Windows operating system. PRTG includes everything that you need in one installater so you can start monitoring your network right away. The Software records bandwidth and network usage and stores the data in an integrated high-performance database. Add all the network devices which you want to monitor via an easy-to-use web-based user interface and configure sensors that retrieve the desired data. You can create usage reports and provide colleagues and customers access to data graphs and tables. PRTG supports all common protocols to get network data: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Packet Sniffing, Cisco NetFlow as well as other vendor specific flow protocols, SSH, SOAP, and many other network protocols. PRTG Network Monitor provides about 200 sensor types so you can start monitoring your standard systems directly after installation. These include monitoring Ping times, HTTP pages, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP mail servers, FTP servers, Linux systems, and many other hardware components and network services. You can easily monitor the performance of your network permanently to recognize imminent outages before they occur. In the case of an error, you will receive emails, SMS, or push messages immediately. PRTG constantly records performance data and downtimes in the database so you can compile reports about performance, downtimes, and SLAs at any time. The Freeware Edition of PRTG Network Monitor is completely free for personal and commercial use. Licenses of the Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than 30 sensors. More about PRTG Network Monitor and Paessler - The Network Monitoring Company. |
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