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Can prtg monitor Linux service like email services .

linux linux-os linux-services

Created on Feb 5, 2020 2:53:59 PM



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Hello,

There are different ways to monitor specific linux services:

1) Use a according shell script to check the status of that service on the machine you wish to monitor. For this you can use the SSH Script Sensor.
2) Use SNMP to monitor linux services.

Kind Regards,
Timo Dambach
Paessler Tech Support

Created on Feb 6, 2020 8:39:10 AM by Timo Dambach [Paessler Support]




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