Is there a template repository that or forum for template exchange? I'm thinking mostly of device templates but sensor, report and map templates would also welcome a good exchange.
For instance, we have built a custom template for our Cisco PIX/ASA firewalls that shows us current and max-ever connections, current number of VPN sessions, number of currently shunned IPs, number of denise per second, etc. Once we had one firewall working we saved the template and now use it whenever we add a new ASA to the network.
Similarly, our default windows template is quite a bit different that what PRTG does if you leave it alone during a discovery. It'd be nice to have a place where people can share their own ideas of what a "standard" set of monitoring metrics are for things like Windows, Linux, SAN switches etc.
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I agree that there should be some "try at your own risk" library of user uploaded templates. One thing that seems to be lacking with PRTG is the user community sharing their own innovations. Instead it seems like we have to wait for official Paessler releases.
Mar, 2011 - Permalink
My intent in the question was not to add to the built-in templates but rather for users to share ideas and different ways of instrumenting the same equipment.
For instance, adding temperature sensors to the default Cisco Cat6500 template would be truly awesome IMO. However I doubt there's only a small subset of PRTG users who would find that useful; most would end up spending unnecessary time deleting those sensors thereby reducing the usefulness of the template option for them. Likewise, I prefer to count the # of active VPN connections on my Cisco ASAs and have created a template which does this automatically, however I doubt most ASA users really care about that metric.
In the Cacti community you can find multiple user-generated templates for various devices and I found it fun to play with them and see what kinds of things others found useful. I would hate for PRTG to become bloated with lots of templates with tons of sensors most users would end up deleting anyway.
Mar, 2011 - Permalink
Until we have a better solution there is a knowledgebase article which act as the place to share templates for PRTG with other fellow PRTG users:
Do you have templates for PRTG that you would like to share?
Mar, 2013 - Permalink
Hi there,
Did you already review the PRTG Script World?
Best regards,
Sebastian
May, 2019 - Permalink
Thanks for your suggestion!
If you have a good template for any device, we would be happy to review it and quite likely would add it to PRTG's built-in template set. If that's ok for you, please send your template to support@paessler.com
Alternatively I could add you as a submitter on our Google Code project where you can upload your template yourself. Please also write to support@paessler.com about it.
Feb, 2011 - Permalink