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Why don't my Hyper-V sensors work after changing names?

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After renaming my virtual machine, network card, or disk resource name, PRTG shows a red "Down" sensor, indicating an error. I am sure my devices are up and running.

Why do my Hyper-V sensors show an error message?

hyper-v prtg virtual-machine vm wmi

Created on Feb 8, 2011 3:45:58 PM by Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support]

Last change on Aug 14, 2017 10:10:10 AM by Gerald Schoch [Paessler Support]



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This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 16 or later

Hyper-V Sensors and Changing Names

We recommend that you do not rename VMs once you have set up monitoring.

If you have renamed a Hyper-V virtual machine, network card, or resource name, please perform the following steps to be able to monitor it again.

  1. Restart your Hyper-V host server.
  2. In PRTG, add the respective Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Hyper-V Virtual Network Adapter, Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device, and Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volume Disk Free sensors anew (previously collected historic data will not be available in the new sensor's tables and graphs).

Note: You cannot monitor virtual machines if their names contain unsupported characters. Especially, make sure you do not use a hash sign (#) in names.

Created on Feb 8, 2011 3:48:18 PM by Daniel Zobel [Paessler Support]

Last change on Aug 14, 2017 10:09:03 AM by Gerald Schoch [Paessler Support]



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