What is this?

This knowledgebase contains questions and answers about PRTG Network Monitor and network monitoring in general.

Learn more

PRTG Network Monitor

Intuitive to Use. Easy to manage.
More than 500,000 users rely on Paessler PRTG every day. Find out how you can reduce cost, increase QoS and ease planning, as well.

Free Download

Top Tags


View all Tags

What is the function of the "scan now" button?

Votes:

0

Hi there,

I had an expectation that the 'scan now' button should be a way to force the scanning of the particular sensor, however it only seems to refresh the PRTG page.

I am using the ssh monitors such as SSH disk free and SSH load average.

refresh scan-now ssh

Created on Dec 20, 2018 2:39:09 AM



1 Reply

Votes:

0

Hello there,

"Scan Now" does just that, issuing a manual scan, but it takes some time until the scan was performed and data was returned, in most cases it's not like "run query and a second later values have been returned". Do a few manual page refreshes, you should see then how "Last Scan" counter changes as well when the manual scan was performed and retrieved values.

Kind regards,

Erhard

Created on Dec 20, 2018 6:29:09 AM by Erhard Mikulik [Paessler Support]




Disclaimer: The information in the Paessler Knowledge Base comes without warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk. Before applying any instructions please exercise proper system administrator housekeeping. You must make sure that a proper backup of all your data is available.