<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Administrative Tools

Create Configuration Snapshot

Create a snapshot of the PRTG configuration. This action might take up to 100 seconds. Once it finishes, you can find a .zip file that contains a *.dat file in the \Configuration Auto-Backups subfolder of the PRTG data directory.

The name of the .zip file has the format PRTG Configuration (Snapshot YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS).zip.

If you run PRTG in a cluster, this action is executed on the cluster node you are logged in to.

This option is not available in PRTG Hosted Monitor.

Write Core Status File

Create status files of the PRTG core server. You can find the two text files in the \Logs\debug subfolder of the PRTG data directory. PRTG creates new files every time you click Go!.

The files have the names Core State (Global Debug Data).txt and Core State (Memory Debug Data).txt.

If you run PRTG in a cluster, this action is executed on the cluster node you are logged in to.

This option is not available in PRTG Hosted Monitor.

Clear Caches

PRTG caches tiles for Geo Maps, user data for Active Directory Integration, and the Active Directory Group list. Click Go! to delete the cache if you encounter broken Geo Maps tiles, if you changed a user's password in the Active Directory, or if you added groups in the Active Directory.

This option is not available in PRTG Hosted Monitor.

Load Lookups and File Lists

(Re)load the lookup files from the \lookups\custom subfolder of the PRTG program directory. In this subfolder, your customized lookup files are stored. If you have created a new lookup file or changed something in a lookup file, it might be necessary to load or to reload these files.

With this option, you can also manually reload file lists in the PRTG web interface. If you have added new device icons, device templates, report templates, .oidlib files for the SNMP Library sensor, or language files to the PRTG program directory on the PRTG core server system while the server was running, reloading the file lists might be necessary to display new files in the PRTG web interface.

Usually you do not need to reload file lists manually. A list is automatically reloaded when opening the according settings page with a latency of 10 seconds. If you save new device templates via the PRTG web interface, the template list is refreshed immediately.

This option is not available in PRTG Hosted Monitor.

Recalculate PRTG Graph Data Cache

PRTG constantly writes monitoring data to disk and keeps the graphs for your graph tabs in memory. If PRTG unexpectedly ends, the graph cache might become corrupted. In this case, graphs might be empty or show wrong data.

If you experience graph display problems, a graph recalculation fixes the problem. Click Go! to delete the data cache file and to automatically recalculate it.

If you apply the recalculation, PRTG needs to restart the PRTG core server. Because of this, all users of the PRTG web interface, of PRTG app for desktop, or of the PRTG apps for iOS or Android are disconnected. After you click Go!, a dialog window appears that asks you to confirm the required restart. Click OK to trigger the restart.

Directly after this action, your graphs are empty. PRTG successively refills them while the recalculation in the background progresses. Until the recalculation is finished, the performance of the PRTG web interface might be affected because of the high disk input/output (I/O) activity.

Restart PRTG Core Server Service

Restart the PRTG core server service manually. Click Go! to restart it.

If you restart the PRTG core server service, all users of the PRTG web interface, of PRTG app for desktop, or of the PRTG apps for iOS or Android are disconnected. Clicking Go! immediately restarts the PRTG core server service.

If you want to schedule an automatic restart of Windows services for both the PRTG core server service and the PRTG probe service, you can do this in the corresponding probe settings.

This option is not available in PRTG Hosted Monitor.

Reload Logging Configuration

For debugging reasons, it might be necessary to change the log levels of the PRTG core server. The Paessler support team takes you through the necessary steps that are required to change your logging configuration. The log level changes vary according to the PRTG installation, its setup, and the solution of an issue.

To apply the changes, click Go!.

Write Probe Status Files

Create status files of all probes. PRTG writes status files for the local probe on the PRTG core server (in a cluster, on the cluster node you are logged in to) as well as for all remote probes. PRTG creates new files each time you click Go!.

On the respective systems, you find six text files in the \Logs\debug subfolder of the PRTG data directory. The files have the names Probe State (Global Debug Data).txt, Probe State (Memory Debug Data).txt, Probe State (Scheduler Debug Data).txt, Probe State (Syslog).txt, Probe State (Trap).txt, and Probe State (xFlow Debug Data).txt.

Restart All Probes

Restart all probes as well as the local probe Windows service. If you have remote probes, this restarts the probe Windows services on the remote probe systems as well. To restart single probes only, see below.

You cannot restart disconnected probes here. Use the PRTG Administration Tool on the probe system to start a disconnected probe.

If you run PRTG in a cluster, this action is executed on the cluster node you are logged in to. In this case, remote probes are only restarted if you are logged in to the primary master node. The cluster probe Windows service of failover nodes is not restarted if you execute this action on the primary master node. If you want to restart the cluster probe Windows service of a failover node, log in to the PRTG web interface of this failover node and click Go! there.

Probe [#Number] "[Name]"

This section shows information about the connection status. If the probe is connected, the field shows the source IP address and port number that the probe uses. For the local probe, the IP address is always 127.0.0.1. You also see information about the date when the last data packet was received from the probe.

If you want to restart a single probe, click the corresponding Restart Probe button. Entries for every single probe follow.

You cannot restart disconnected probes here. Use the PRTG Administration Tool on the probe system to start a disconnected probe.

This option is not available on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance.