I want to have a ping sensor that will only collect information about the availability of a device and will not change its own status. Is this possible?
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How to create/customize statistical Ping sensor?
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Custom Ping sensor available
On PRTG Tools Family, there is a custom Ping sensor available (PingWarning.exe) that goes into the Warning status (instead of the Down status) if the device is down.
Find the sensor under https://prtgtoolsfamily.com/downloads/sensors.
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This article applies as of PRTG 21
A Sensor Indicates a Device's Current Status
A sensor always shows the current status of a device for the aspect it is monitoring. For example, if a device is not reachable, the PRTG Ping sensor on this device will change to the error state to show the down status. You cannot change this, because otherwise the sensor would show incorrect information.
You can, however, disable all notification triggers for a sensor. If you do and a device is down, the according sensor will show the error status, but you will not get any notifications.
How to disable all notification triggers for a sensor
- Right-click on a sensor, go to Edit and then to the Notification Triggers... tab.
- Uncheck the Inherit all triggers from parent objects and use the triggers defined above option.
- Check the Only use the triggers defined above option.
- Make sure that in the Notification triggers section above, you select (no triggers defined) in the dropdown list.
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See the manual section Notifications for more details.
Created on Mar 5, 2010 10:28:54 AM by
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Custom Ping sensor available
On PRTG Tools Family, there is a custom Ping sensor available (PingWarning.exe) that goes into the Warning status (instead of the Down status) if the device is down.
Find the sensor under https://prtgtoolsfamily.com/downloads/sensors.
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no, sorry a sensor in warning state does not trigger dependency
Created on Mar 12, 2010 8:41:36 AM by
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The IP address is set at the Device level, not at the sensor level. You need to create a Device first, enter the IP address of that target device and then create a sensor on the device, it will ping that IP.
Created on Oct 6, 2022 2:20:30 PM by
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