By Android phone and Kindle Fire HD IT networks on the move ... - PresseBox (press release)

Paessler makes the mobile Admin: With the new app “PRTG for Android” users of smartphones with Google’s operating system to version 4.0, and its Kindle Fire HD IT infrastructure with PRTG Network Monitor and remotely kept in view. As in the web interface to the network, all sensor data are displayed hierarchically in probes, groups, and devices. Administrators can use the app to inter alia View data, acknowledge alarms and pause monitoring for individual objects or entire groups. About various notification options, the user knows immediately of any malfunction or failure. In addition, he can keep up to date by means of widgets that display directly on the home screen, the status of a global sensor PRTG server or important sensor data. “PRTG for Android” is now available in the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore for download.

To use the app a PRTG Core Server version 13.1 is required, which is accessible from the mobile device. The app connects to the server in order to clearly display the entire monitoring configuration on the mobile devices. Administrator manages a number of independent PRTG server so he can invest in all the app is easy to switch between the servers and be alert with a background service on all servers, unexpected values ??should be measured or failures occur. Using the app, the administrator can view the real-time monitoring graphs and change priority and favorite status of sensors, monitoring pause / continue, acknowledge alarms that trigger sensor scans directly start an auto-discovery and retrieve historical data.

Practical widgets at a glance
The ease support the redesigned widgets that reflect either the global or individual sensor status, sensor channels as “speedometer” on the home screen. In this way the user is always up to date, even without the app to open. That nevertheless reach him alarms, provides individually configurable notification service for sure: A background service, which is updated at regular intervals, reports failures or breakdowns directly in the Android status bar and can be felt on request also by sound or vibration

Regardless of how large the display of the terminal is used: The “PRTG for Android” app automatically adjusts the display so that the user can recognize as much information as possible at a glance. At the mobile data usage, the app developers have thought. To avoid high amounts of data, sensor graph to be loaded in mobile internet connection on request, only when Wi-Fi connection, the display is immediately

QR code leads to the desired mobile ad <. br /> If the user is currently in the PRTG Web Interface Ajax way and want to get the same view shown on his mobile device, he can directly scan the QR code on the screen and immediately see the page in its PRTG app. It is also conceivable that administrators populate their server racks with printed QR codes to access the server room on their smartphone easily to the monitoring data of a particular device.

Even without a PRTG Core useful server
administrators who run no PRTG installation, also benefit from the new app. Even without connecting to a Core Server, the application keeps a useful “toolbox” ready. Directly from the smartphone or tablet from targets can be checked in the network by Ping or Traceroute DNS query. Web server responses (Raw HTTP) can be initiated on the mobile device and also members. A “MAC database” is straightforward information as t o which MAC address belongs to which circuit manufacturer.

The Android app is now available free for download from the Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore ready. More information and download links, see www.paessler.com/ ….

Paessler AG develops and distributes years powerful and user-friendly network monitoring software. The multi-award winning comparison tests in software PRTG Network Monitor provides less stress and more confidence in IT departments at a fair price. From its headquarters in Nuremberg from Paessler serves more than 150,000 active installations of its products, which in organizations of all sizes around the world – are in use – SOHO, SMEs and corporations globally active. Founded in 1997, remains a privately held and also a member of the Cisco Developer Network and a VMware Technology Alliance Partner. Free Trials and more information is available at www.de.paessler.com available.