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Right-click your new device, select Run Auto Discovery with Template, and select the Custom UCD-SNMP Linux Process v0.x from the list.Create a new device in PRTG with the address (IP or FQDN) of the device that you want to monitor and configure the SNMP credentials accordingly.This ensures that the MIB and lookups are loaded before you run the auto-discovery. In PRTG, restart the core server: open Setup | System Administration | Administrative Tools | Restart Core Server and click Go!.By default, this is %Program Files (x86)%\PRTG Network Monitor\. Extract the archive to your PRTG program directory.Download the required zip archive here.The usage of the device templates makes the deployment of sensors easier, especially if there are several devices or processes that you would like to monitor.

You can however define additional limits for the "Process Count" channel.

It will use the status for alerting by default. This device template will poll the following:

Restart your SNMP service to make the changes take effect.Īutomatic Sensor creation with Device Template.

Run the command /bin/ps -e to get the process name to use.

It might be necessary to use the process name as given in the sbin or bin directory.

IMPORTANT: It has to be exact the same name as in your process list.

Replace with the name of the desired process.

Open your "nf" file in a text editor and navigate to the end of the file.

This can be done via SNMP, but therefore you need to apply some modification to your system's SNMP configuration. In some cases it might be useful to monitor if (and how often) a process on a Linux system is running at the moment. This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 9 or later Monitoring Running Processes in Linux Prerequisites