Alarms, Maps, Reports, Logs, and ToDos

Alarme

The Alarm page shows the list of sensors that are in an error or warning state. If all your systems are running fine this page should not list any sensors at all. The Alarm overview is a good start if you want to solve problems in your network. Using the on-mouse-over main menu, you can select what kind of Alarms you want to see. The options are "All", "Errors only", "Warnings only", and "Unusuals only". Additionally to browsing the pages, you can also re-sort the data shown in the Alarm list just by clicking on the column headers or change the item count per page (available for big lists).

Reports

"Reports" are used to analyze monitoring data, either once or at specified intervals. You can define any number of reports, specify the sensors for a report, select a template and run them at any interval you like, such as once, daily, weekly or monthly.

Read more about this in the section Reports.

Maps

Using "Maps" you can create personalized overviews and dashboards of your monitored network. A map can include a background image, such as a network drawing. You can place status icons, lists of sensors as well as graphs with your current monitoring status on the map.

You can define any number of maps and use them to create a NOC (Network Operation Center) Dashboard, an overview of the network status for your Intranet, a webpage with the graphs of your most important sensors and more. By setting the Access rights to "Public Access", you can provide others with URLs to a map so they can view the data without the need for a user account.

Read more about this in the section Maps.

Logs

In the Log list, the log file with all monitoring events is shown. In a typical setup, a huge amount of data is produced here. As the activity of every single object is minuted, use this data to check if your setup works as expected. Using the on-mouse-over main menu, you can select what kind of log information you want to see. Filters "By Group", "By Status Change" and "By System Events" are available. Additionally to browsing the pages, you can also change "Date Range" and "Item Count" to filter the data shown in the current Log by using the according controls in the upper right corner.

ToDos

Whenever PRTG comes across an event or monitoring object that needs the administrator's attention, it will add an entry to the "ToDos" list and send an email to the admin user.

ToDos are created when:

• A new device or sensor has been created by the auto discovery process and should be acknowledged by the user.
• A new probe connects to the core and must be acknowledged.
• A new version of the software is available.
• A new report is ready for review.
• In a few other situations, such as when the system runs out of disk space, licensing issues etc.

Read more about this in the section ToDos.

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