Prtg установка на linux

Can I use PRTG with Linux?

How can I use my Linux / Unix / MacOS systems in combination with PRTG?

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This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 12 or later

Using Linux/Unix/MacOS with PRTG

There are many different ways how you can use PRTG with your Linux, Unix or MacOS systems.

Monitor Linux / Unix / MacOS Systems

Generally, there are two ways to monitor these systems with PRTG:

On the target systems, you can monitor parameters like memory, CPU, and disks. For detailed information, please see the following articles.

Target System	Technology	Article
Linux, Unix	SNMP	How do I monitor system parameters like memory, CPU and disks on Linux systems via SNMP?
Linux	SNMP	Monitoring processes in Linux (using SNMP)
MacOS	SNMP	How do I activate SNMP on Mac OS in order to monitor it with PRTG?
Linux, Unix, MacOS	SSH, WBEM, SNMP	Which Linux or Mac OS distributions are supported by the Linux/Unix sensors (SSH, SNMP, WBEM)?
Linux, Unix, MacOS	SSH, WBEM, SNMP	PRTG Manual: List of Linux/Unix/OS X Sensors

Running PRTG on Linux

Currently it is not possible to install PRTG on Linux/Unix systems. In order to run a PRTG core server or a remote probe you need a Windows machine.

However, you can run custom shell scripts on your Linux/Unix system using the SSH Script sensors. They run directly on the target system and can collect and return monitoring data.

Another option is to use the PRTG Mini Probe API to write your own Mini Probe for Linux monitoring. Mini Probes that are implemented appropriately can run directly on Linux systems and deliver the results to your PRTG core server. We provide a proof-of-concept for this concern with the Python Mini Probe.

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Last change on Sep 1, 2014 4:42:50 PM by Gerald Schoch [Paessler Support]

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Installation of PRTG Traffic Grapher on Ubuntu Linux

Originally published on January 07, 2008 by Dirk Paessler
Last updated on November 18, 2022 • 3 minute read

Hello, nice to have you here.

You’ve found a real oldie but goodie here on our blog. 🕺🏼
The original content is from 2008 , and a lot has happened since then.

Our monitoring software is now called Paessler PRTG and is available in different editions:

To extend the native monitoring function of PRTG to other platforms like Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) as well as ARM-based devices and Docker, check out this article:

You do not need a Windows based computer (and a Windows license) to use most of PRTG’s features. You can also run PRTG Traffic Grapher 6.x on Linux. Using the «Wine Library» (which emulates Windows system calls) you can run PRTG like most other Windows apps on Linux systems. Of course some hardware/driver-based features like Packet Sniffing do not work. For this tutorial the following steps will

• create a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 6,
• install Ubuntu 7.10 onto the virtual machine,
• install Wine 0.9.52 onto Ubuntu and
• install PRTG 6.x onto Ubuntu/Wine

Afterwards you will be able to use most of PRTG’s functionality under Linux (mainly the SNMP based monitoring, latency monitoring, reporting, notifications and the internal webserver). Here is a screenshot of the Windows GUI and the browser interface on Ubuntu 7.10 (click the image to zoom in):

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Running PRTG Traffic Grapher on a Linux computer

Originally published on September 25, 2006 by Dirk Paessler
Last updated on March 03, 2022 • 6 minute read

A new segment in the sphere of operating systems seems to build up. Somewhere between the paid-for Windows operating systems and the open-source Linux systems a new kind of offerings comes up: They are cheap or free, they are easy to install and to use (windows lookalikes) and. They run Windows applications. One sample is Linux XP Desktop (free download, $40) which is built on Red-Hat Linux and offers a GUI that appeals to users that are familiar with Windows. And it is able to run many Windows applications out-of-the-box. Another sample is ReactOS, which is in an early alpha stage currently. Yes, it’s true: Even PRTG Traffic Grapher can be run on this Linux system. The secret ingredient is called Wine.

«Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.» I am really impressed by how far the Wine developers have come in their work to port the Windows API to Linux systems. PRTG is not at all an easy task to run on a Linux box since we had to put in a lot of system calls in order to get all the features we want to have for our product. All these system calls must be processed by the Windows emulator. For the coming months it will be interesting to see how these products and the Wine project will evolve. Microsoft won’t like it, but there are some usage scenarios in the near future where it will be sufficient to use a Wine based operating system to run Windows apps and one can save the money for the Windows license.

PRTG On Linux: Hands On

If you want to try running PRTG on Linux yourself, here is what you need:

• A Linux system with Wine installed (for testing we used the latest «Linux XP Desktop SR2» which includes Wine 0.9.8, simply a plain vanilla, out of the box installation)
• The standard installer of PRTG Traffic Grapher (Freeware or Commercial Edition) from Paessler
• The Tahoma TrueType font installer from Microsoft
• The Mozilla ActiveX Control V1.7.1.2 from sourceforge

Note: You should use exactly the Mozilla installer above, because the «official» MozillaControl1712.exe installer has a problem in that the control is compiled with MSVC6 but some MSVC .Net DLLs were packaged instead of the MSVC6 one. This makes it unusable out of the box. The download link above was tested to run fine.

Installation

• Step 1: Copy the installers of PRTG and Mozilla onto the Linux box
• Step 2: Run the Mozilla installer
• Step 3: Run the Tahoma font installer
• Step 4: On the Linux system run «winecfg» and set the default for the emulated Windows version to «Windows 98»
• Step 5: Run PRTG installer
• Step 6: Run PRTG Traffic Grapher from the desktop link

Voila, PRTG runs on Linux! (Click the thumbnail to zoom in)

Known Problems

A number of issues is still unsolved yet:

• PRTG can not be run as a service under Wine yet
• The internal web server of PRTG only works on 127.0.0.1
• The internal web browser of PRTG does not work
• The window minimize/maximize icons are not there
• Sometimes PRTG seems to crash upon exiting the program using «File|Exit», use ALT+F4 instead

One tip for Wine: If you happen to have a crashed window of a Windows EXE that blocks everything else, run the command «wineserver -k» to kill the Windows emulation process and with it all Windows apps.

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PRTG app for desktop

The PRTG app for desktop is a native application that allows you to manage multiple PRTG servers.

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• You might want to download our mobile apps instead?

• No, I really want to download the desktop app

To use the PRTG app for desktop, you first need to install PRTG.

How the PRTG app for desktop works

The PRTG app for desktop is an alternative interface that you can use to connect to a PRTG core server or a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance to configure your setup, view monitoring results, and keep an eye on your network.

The PRTG app for desktop is a cross-platform application for fast access to data and monitoring management. Learn more about the features in the PRTG app for desktop below.

Features
Device Tree Management Multi-Edit Alerting

Device tree management

Easily move or clone objects in the device tree using drag-and-drop or the standard keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V to quickly copy objects to the clipboard for simple and efficient management.

Multi-edit

Select multiple objects in the device tree to bulk edit settings or to apply context menu functions to all selected objects at once.

You can also view data of the first five selected objects, for example index graphs, at a glance.

Alerting

Enable the tray icon to receive desktop notifications and to play sounds whenever PRTG discovers changes in your network.

Click the tray icon to see the status of all of your configured servers at once, or a detailed alarms list for each server.

For a detailed overview of all features, please have a look at our user manual:

All downloads for the PRTG app for desktop

Supported systems:

Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012 R2 or Windows 11/10 / macOS 10.13+ /
PRTG Server: Version 17.4.35.1000 or newer

Windows 64-bit

Windows 32-bit

macOS

Linux

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Since 1997, we offer monitoring solutions for businesses across all industries and all sizes, from SMB to large enterprises. Today, more than 500,000 users in over 170 countries rely on PRTG and other Paessler solutions to monitor their complex IT, OT and IoT infrastructures. We believe monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind’s consumption of resources. Our products help our customers optimize their IT, OT and IoT infrastructures, and reduce their energy consumption or emissions – for our future and our environment.

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