This is our first installation. After the device discovery there is no Switch or Firewall in the root. The first item I want to test is traffic and the demo I watched used a Switch.

Why are they listed?

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Hi there,

In order to monitor the devices, you need to configure SNMP on the target devices. PRTG supports SNMP in the versions v1, v2c and v3. Configure a read-only community with a string of your choice. Some devices require to fill-in the PRTG Server's IP address as an agent to allow the PRTG Server to get information.

This is also described in these articles:

Please do also have a look at this short introduction video regarding monitoring via SNMP:

https://www.paessler.com/support/videos/prtg-basics/bandwidth-monitoring-basic


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