<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Welcome Page

After completing the Smart Setup, you will see PRTG's welcome page as default when you log in to the web interface. You can set another homepage in your account settings, section Web Interface.

Note: This documentation refers to the PRTG System Administrator user accessing the Ajax interface on a master node. For other user accounts, interfaces, or nodes, not all of the options might be available as described. When using a cluster installation, failover nodes are read-only by default.

Welcome to PRTG Network Monitor

Welcome to PRTG Network Monitor

The PRTG welcome page shows you various information about your PRTG installation at a glance, similar to a dashboard. You can also directly access several pages in the PRTG web interface from the welcome page.

You have the following options on the welcome page:

Welcome Page: A Good Starting Point for Your Daily Monitoring Activities

Welcome Page: A Good Starting Point for Your Daily Monitoring Activities

The welcome page keeps you informed about current Alarms and open Tickets:

Welcome Page: Alarms Overview and Open Tickets 

Welcome Page: Alarms Overview and Open Tickets 

Other sections are:

  • News from Paessler: Shows recent information about PRTG and Paessler. Click the heading of an article to open it on paessler.com with your browser.
  • Yesterday's Activity: Shows what your PRTG server did for you on the day before. Point with your mouse to the mini graph to show the number of sensor scans on a specific day. See also manual section PRTG Status—System Status, section Activity History.
  • License Status: Shows the number of your left maintenance days for PRTG and the number of sensors you can still add with your current license. Click Get Maintenance to open the Paessler shop and extend your maintenance. Click Get More Sensors to open the Paessler shop and upgrade your license. See also manual section PRTG Status—License Status and Settings.
    Note: If you use a PRTG license with an unlimited number of sensors, you will see 0 Sensors Available here for technical reasons. Of course, you can still add sensors if you run an unlimited edition nevertheless. Please consider the system requirements for a properly working PRTG setup and click Recommended Setup for more information.
  • Update Available: Shows the version number of your PRTG core server and the version number of the latest available PRTG version. You will see the label NEW if there is a newer version available. Click Install Update to open PRTG's Auto-Update page.
  • If your PRTG is currently not SSL secured, the welcome page asks you to enable SSL encryption for the PRTG website. Click Yes, Switch to SSL to enable SSL encryption or Don't Tell Me Again to remove this note from the welcome page. See also manual section System Administration—User Interface.
  • If you still use the default password of the PRTG System Administrator user (prtgadmin), the welcome page asks you to set a secret password if your PRTG website is publicly accessible. Click Change Default Password Now to define a new password. See also manual section System Administration—User Accounts.
  • In the video section you find informative and helpful videos about monitoring with PRTG. Click a video to open and play it on paessler.com.

The collected information about your PRTG installation makes the welcome page a good starting point for your daily monitoring activities. Of course, you can also set up your custom dashboards in PRTG. The Maps feature of PRTG enables you to create dashboards exactly like you want.

 

 

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