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Global Sensor Thresholds

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We have our PRTG installation set up more or less as we want it now with all the sensors etc, but we want to now fine tune the alerting etc.

One of the things we want to do is to set specific limits for lower and warning values for things like disk space, memory.

What is the fastest and most efficient way to:

A) Set these values on these sensors as the default for all future devices and B) Mass set these values on sensors already deployed?

Doing it manually is proving quite slow, surely there's a way I can display ALL "Disk Free" sensors, highlight the lot and set the limit thresholds?

limits sensor thresholds

Created on Mar 26, 2014 3:57:55 PM



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The fastest and easiest way would be to use multi-edit to adjust the values for the sensors in batch. Essentially, use the "Sensors -> By Type" option to generate a list of all sensors of this particular type, then use the checkboxes on the right to select the sensors you wish to change. Then, click on the wrench icon (edit) and adjust the values as necessary. The changes will then be stored for all the selected sensors.

Created on Mar 27, 2014 12:56:54 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Perfect

Created on Mar 28, 2014 11:11:47 AM



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This doesn't address future devices though...

Created on Feb 27, 2016 7:15:17 AM



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For future devices, you might want to use the device template feature :)

Created on Feb 29, 2016 9:40:23 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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How will this apply to existing sensors we already have that we have adjusted to monitor by bytes instead of %? Will they have dual monitoring on the sensors when we use this method to all sensors of a particular type?

Created on Jul 24, 2019 3:51:08 PM



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Device Templates will not modify existing Sensors or Devices (other from creating Sensors, that is). You'll need to modify them via Multi-Edit to have their settings changed accordingly.

Created on Jul 25, 2019 1:30:22 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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As proposed scenarios are quite understandable, I still lack of an ability to override sensor type's thresholds globally in one place, not by recreating burried somewhere XML templates.

Although device templates does the job, it's not an obvious and user friendly as a global sensor type override could be.

Created on Feb 12, 2020 7:49:19 AM




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