Configuring PRTG Network Monitor on Hyper-V

[xianaier]

I just got PRTG Network Monitor installed. I was starting to configure it and was wondering if anyone had any advice, suggestion, or pitfalls to watch out for on a Hyper-V server?

[dWight]

According to my knowledge there are no pitfalls with PRTG. I think you need to understand its features carefully so you can use it in the right manner:

Here is a glimpse at PRTG key new features:

• Higher security: the PRTG cluster function allows users to build a
• fail-safe, distributed monitoring system.
• Newly designed web interface, including a mini-HTML interface for
• mobile access, specifically designed for iPhone and Blackberry, as
• well as Android and Windows Mobile devices
• New Google Maps support integrated in the web interface for displaying
• geographical maps
• Advanced "Maps" functions for creating custom network views
• Real time availability of historic data
• Integrated, native Linux monitoring functions
• Monitoring of virtual environments (VMware, HyperV, Xen
• Reliable alarm system via email, SMS, instant messenger, pager
• message, HTTP request, syslog, etc.
• Inclusion of a variety of new sensors and remote probes to monitor

[jakson0100]

PRTG does not officiall support installation on hyper-v. Recommended virtual machines are VMware ESX(i) Servers. PRTG should still work on hyper-v, but there might be some problems, e.g. with packet sniffing.
For monitoring hyper-v systems, PRTG has the following sensors:
• Hyper-V Host Server Sensor
• Hyper-V Virtual Machine Sensor
• Hyper-V Virtual Network Adapter Sensor
• Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device Sensor