Hi,

We have a lot of sensors running in our environment and i was wondering if it is possible that sensors discovered with auto-discovery are deleted automaticly when they are already removed. For example, if a vm is sensored in a vcenter and i delete the vm in the vcenter, is it possible prtg deletes the sensor of the vm automaticly?

Greetings,

Killaars

(PS. Sorry for my bad English.)

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Hi Killaars,

This will not be possible I'm afraid. The vCenter would need to send an HTTP request to trigger the deletion via the API as soon as a virtual machine has been removed. This would be possible with this call:

/api/deleteobject.htm?id=objectid&approve=1

Please use this API call with care, this cannot be undone afterwards!

Additionally, you might want to acknowledge particular alarms by following this article.

Best regards, Felix


Oct, 2015 - Permalink

Hi Felix,

Thanks for the quick reaction. I will have a look into it and hope it's gonna work.

Best regards,

Killaars


Oct, 2015 - Permalink

Has the feature to remove deleted VMs, from a sensor list in a vCenter auto-discovered device without the API call?

Thank You, Richard


Dec, 2020 - Permalink

Hello,

I'm afraid that there is no such feature in PRTG to automatically remove a device when it doesn't exist anymore in vCenter. The API call remains the only option to automate this task.

Kind regards.


Dec, 2020 - Permalink