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How do I change scanning interval for all DEPLOYED sensors of a specific sensor type?

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Hi Paessler,

I have tons of sensors and to reduce WMI load on the PRTG Probe, I need to adjust the scanning interval of certain sensors. For instance, I don't need to check free disk space every 60 seconds.

So, my question is:

How do I change the scanning interval of all deployed WMI Disk Free sensors to e.g. 5 mins?

Thanks,

Bjorn

probe scanning-interval wmi-sensors

Created on Jan 2, 2018 8:50:44 AM

Last change on Jan 2, 2018 8:59:24 AM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]



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Hi there,
thank you for your KB-Post.

Usually, the quickest way to change a setting from all sensors of a type is using the "Sensors > By Type > (Select Type)" menu.

You can then select all sensors on a page from the select all check-box on the top right side and then using the wrench icon change the settings from all sensors at once.

This process is called multi-edit, please see the manual page for more details:

You can also use some additional filters to locate all WMI/Windows-based sensors that are running in a 60s interval:

http(s)://<YOURPRTG>/sensors.htm?columns=objid,probe,device,name,type,interval,checkbox&filter_type=@sub(WMI)&filter_type=@sub(Windows)&filter_interval=0000000060

Best Regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]

Created on Jan 2, 2018 9:04:07 AM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]



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Perfect! That worked like a charm.

Now my probe is much healthier

Thank you

Bjorn Dirchsen

Created on Jan 2, 2018 11:04:08 AM



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Hi there, could you by any chance give me a bit more info on constructing the sensor views?

I need to list all sensor types by interval however removing the WMI and Windows selectors seems to return nothing on this.

kindest Samuekl

Created on Nov 9, 2018 10:52:24 AM



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Hello Samuekl,
thank you for your reply.

To list all sensors with a scanning interval of 60 seconds, you can use the following query:

http(s)://<YOURPRTG>/sensors.htm?columns=objid,probe,device,name,type,interval,checkbox&filter_interval=0000000060

If you want to list all sensors(with no filters) you can use:

http(s)://<YOURPRTG>/sensors.htm?columns=objid,probe,device,name,type,interval,checkbox

Note: The query will only return up to 500 sensors by default. This can be increased by appending &count=99999 to the query.

Best Regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]

Created on Nov 9, 2018 1:25:21 PM by Luciano Lingnau [Paessler]




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