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Monitoring industrial IT and OT with PRTG: a sensor round-up
If you’ve been following our blog over the past few years (and if you haven’t been, you really should), you will know that we have implemented many features in our Paessler PRTG monitoring software that help you monitor infrastructure in industrial environments. In fact, we’ve added so much functionality that you might have lost the overview. So here’s a summary of the sensors we’ve added for monitoring OT, IIoT and IT in factories and plants.
Protect and monitor your entire IT environment with Acronis and PRTG
Building a cloud platform to deliver your company’s services can be time consuming, complex, and fraught with risk – something akin to juggling. These problems increase significantly if your company’s business is the provision of services to others.
Global launch of Paessler PRTG Hosted Monitor
Are you already using one of our products to monitor your infrastructure? Maybe our Paessler PRTG Network Monitor? Then you may have heard of our cloud-based solution, PRTG Hosted Monitor. We host the software for you so you don't need to install complex hardware in your server rack.
Carbon Drawdown Initiative monitors ground data related to CO₂ sequestration using PRTG Hosted Monitor
At Paessler, we have a mission. We want to empower our customers with our IT, OT and IoT solutions to monitor, understand and reduce their resource consumption. This cause is a matter of heart and hence it will certainly come as no surprise that our founder Dirk Paessler, who is still Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Paessler AG, founded a separate company some time ago that has taken a very focused approach to the issue of climate change. This company is called Carbon Drawdown Initiative. Even less surprising might be that Dirk is relying on Paessler PRTG, more precisely on our cloud solution PRTG Hosted Monitor, to monitor a captivating project of the Carbon Drawdown Initiative. Let's take a look at this story and the use case.
First steps with the new Paessler PRTG Multi-Platform Probe
With Paessler PRTG version 21.4.73, we introduced the Multi-Platform Probe to extend the native monitoring capabilities on non-Windows platforms, for example Linux, Raspberry Pi, or NAS systems.
Get certified by Paessler. Become a monitoring expert!
Most of my articles are about monitoring different target devices using Paessler PRTG. I also write some cool stuff on my blog TechWithJasmin.com. Today, I have a different topic for you. It is about training and certification. We at Paessler provide our partners and customers with hands-on training on how to install, manage and troubleshoot PRTG. Starting this year, we introduced new training courses grouped in different levels. Regardless of what experience you have, there is always something for you.
Business process monitoring with PRTG Enterprise Monitor
Business process monitoring is the proactive monitoring of the core business processes of a company, including the observation of all technical and application-related functions. Any business activity is up for optimization through business process monitoring. Let us show you why Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor is the perfect solution for performing business process monitoring in every aspect of contemporary business process management.
Paessler PRTG offers a brand new Restful API alongside a new UI
👆 Disclaimer | Please read first Please note that both the new UI and the new API are alpha versions whose development is not yet complete, and offer only a limited set of features. This means that there may still be errors and things may not go as planned. The alpha versions of the new UI and new API currently include the following features: Read: Probes, groups, devices, sensors, and channel data Pause, Resume, Scan: Probes, groups, devices, sensors Acknowledge: Sensors Check the PRTG Release notes for newly added features. Nevertheless, it is very important for us to share the status with you as soon as possible, because you work with PRTG every day and you deserve to know what's coming. This gives you the opportunity to influence further development and feature implementation by giving us valuable feedback at an early stage of development. Of course, you can use both the existing and the new UI side by side and easily switch back and forth between them. A few days ago on the blog, I gave you a sneak peek of the shiny new user interface of Paessler PRTG here on the blog. If you didn't catch it, be sure to check out the article "Paessler PRTG brings an entirely new user experience with a brand new UI". My colleagues can't wait for your feedback on the new interface.
Paessler PRTG brings an entirely new user experience with a brand new UI
👆 Disclaimer | Please read first Please note that the new UI is an alpha version whose development is not yet complete, and offers only a limited set of features. This means that there may still be errors and things may not go as planned. The alpha versions of the new UI and new API currently include the following features: Read: Probes, groups, devices, sensors, and channel data Pause, Resume, Scan: Probes, groups, devices, sensors Acknowledge: Sensors Check the PRTG Release notes for newly added features. Nevertheless, it is very important for us to share the status with you as soon as possible, because you work with PRTG every day and you deserve to know what's coming. This gives you the opportunity to influence further development and feature implementation by giving us valuable feedback at an early stage of development. Of course, you can use both the existing and the new UI side by side and easily switch back and forth between them. After updating Paessler PRTG to version 21.4.73, you will be able to test and enjoy a shiny brand new user interface.
PRTG v. 21.4.73 comes with a new user interface, API and a new probe
With the release of PRTG Network Monitor version 21.4.73, which has been available since December 1st, we are happy to announce a lot of great news at once: A new, modern web interface A brand-new RESTful API A new multi-platform probe New OPC UA notification options 4 more sensors in experimental states 👆 Please note that all new additions are early alpha versions whose development is not yet complete, and thus not all features are included. Let's take a look at the details!
How well do you know your OT network?
For a long time “Security through obscurity” was the mantra of the OT Engineer. If a device or network can’t be accessed, it can’t be attacked. Unfortunately, with today’s push towards convergence, this can no longer be relied upon. Actually knowing what assets are in the network can be a big problem in the OT world.
Monitor bandwidth consumption in a PRTG Enterprise Monitor environment
I recently wrote an article that explains how much bandwidth is consumed between the PRTG core server and remote probes. For the sake of context, a few years ago our reseller Omicron AG from Switzerland set up an installation of PRTG with 10,000 SNMP sensors for one of their customers. Within minutes, they could see that they were only generating 400 kbit/s of network traffic for 10,000 sensors with a one-minute scanning interval (which is less than 3 kbit/s per switch)! If you missed it, you can read it here.
LNA Santé uses PRTG for monitoring the IT of its 72 nursing homes and health care institutions
Okay, two things are probably clear. We publish outstanding use cases on our blog every now and then – and both PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Enterprise Monitor are, to varying degrees, made to monitor large IT environments, providing a simple way to gain visibility and control over increasingly complex infrastructures. This is the last part of a four-part series. Are you proudly old school, don't like this newfangled blogging, and would prefer to have your use case as a proper PDF? Who could blame you? You will find the linked PDF on this use case page. iAbout LNA Santé With 30 years of experience, LNA Santé focuses on improving the quality of life for people of any age who are dealing with temporary or permanent medical conditions by providing a welcoming and caring environment. Committed to providing quality services and guided by its mission to "cure and take care", LNA Santé has seen growth in its various undertakings. As of June 30, 2020, the organization has more than 6,500 employees in 72 establishments: 45 nursing homes (called EHPAD in French) with 4,631 beds in France, 4 nursing homes in Belgium (with 555 beds) for the long-term care sector, 15 follow-up care and rehabilitation centers (2,286 beds), a psychiatric clinic (211 beds) and 7 home hospitalization facilities (473 places) for the medium-stay sector.
How to get monitoring data from REST interfaces
These days, REST APIs are just about everywhere. Everything from gateways and firewalls through to ticket systems and weather sites offer REST APIs that let you query information. This represents an opportunity to bring even more data into your monitoring concept. Think of examples like monitoring weather conditions using APIs of online weather sites, or the number of open tickets in your ticket system. To help you harness the flexibility that REST offers, Paessler PRTG provides you with the REST Custom Sensor V2 as part of its monitoring solution.
PRTG 21.4.72 with AWS Alarm v2 sensor and various fixes & improvements
Compared to the last releases of PRTG Network Monitor, this update does not contain many new sensors, but features several fixes and improvements. It comes with the experimental AWS Alarm v2 sensor and security improvements for SQL v2 sensors.
