Leave heart-stopping hardware hiccups behind with regular hardware scans
- Uncover potential hardware issues before they escalate
- Gain insights into hardware status, health, and performance
- Monitor hardware configurations and vulnerabilities for security
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG hardware scanner: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes hardware scans easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent hardware and system health issues.
Fortify and streamline your digital backbone with thorough hardware assessments
Ensuring the smooth operation of your IT hardware is akin to keeping the gears oiled in a complex machine – it's essential for the seamless progress of your business. With the sheer complexity and variety of hardware devices that make up today's IT environments, from servers and switches to routers and firewalls, keeping everything running smoothly is no small feat. Enter Paessler PRTG's hardware scanning capabilities – your round-the-clock guard and optimizer for your entire IT infrastructure.
Discover & diagnose devices with surgical precision
Take it easy and let our hardware scanner effortlessly zero in on and remedy issues across your assortment of hardware.
PRTG's hardware scanning shines by employing SNMP, WMI, SSH, and custom sensors to offer deep insights into the status and performance of your hardware.
Catch early warnings of trouble, from unexpected temperature shifts to components on the brink, enabling timely maintenance and minimizing operational pauses.
Tailor monitoring to fit your unique infrastructure
PRTG's adaptable configuration empowers you to tailor monitoring to exactly suit your operational needs – for that perfect fit.
Fine-tune the warning and error thresholds of hardware sensors with simplicity to monitor the vitals critical to your enterprise.
Whether adapting to peak usage periods or specific device types, PRTG hands you the reins to focus on the most crucial facets of your network.
Simplify management and lock down security
Streamline your IT operations and bolster your security posture with PRTG’s sensor-driven scanning.
By consolidating your monitoring efforts under one roof, you eliminate the hassle of juggling multiple tools and reduce potential security gaps.
PRTG's secure architecture and encrypted communications ensure your monitoring activities are shielded from prying eyes.
Anticipate nerve-wracking issues with real-time alerts
Minimize heart-stopping disruptions with PRTG's predictive alerting system.
Set up customized notifications to alert you to potential hardware issues before they balloon into critical challenges – and rest assured that if there’s no alert, everything’s running as expected.
Whether through email, SMS, push notifications, or other methods, stay informed and ready to act, no matter where you are.
What hardware diagnostics looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring your hardware devices and components such as routers, switches, printers, workstations, motherboards, or PC hardware. Show hardware scan results and system information in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot the health of your systems and devices.
Device tree view of the entire monitoring setup
SNMP Dell PowerEdge System Health sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on all hardware devices
Start scanning your system and hardware health with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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5 reasons to choose PRTG as your hardware scanner
Comprehensive scope
Covering everything from servers to networking gear, PRTG offers an all-encompassing snapshot of your hardware's health and performance, leaving no stone unturned – including inventory management.
Immediate insights
Gain on-the-spot updates on your hardware's condition with real-time data and dynamic visuals, enabling quick action on emerging issues.
Tailored monitoring
Shape PRTG to fit the exact requirements of your infrastructure, with a wide range of sensor and alert customization possibilities.
Hassle-free setup
PRTG is crafted for swift deployment and user-friendliness, allowing for immediate monitoring start-up without the typical setup headaches.
Proactive alerting
With PRTG's advanced alerting features, stay ahead of potential problems and tackle them before they affect your workflow.
How hardware scans with PRTG work
PRTG uses diagnostic tools to scan or poll your hardware devices via specific protocols to gather the relevant data. Get preconfigured, vendor-specific hardware sensors out of the box, or choose more generic or even custom sensors for all types of hardware from all kinds of manufacturers, keeping an eye on many different hardware parameters.
Hardware parameters
- CPU load
- Temperature
- Power supply
- Battery status
- Disk space
- Fan rotation
- And more
Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG hardware scanner tool.
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with the status, health, and performance of your firmware and hardware.
Your hardware scanner at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
PRTG makes hardware scans easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent hardware and system health issues.
“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD
Hardware scanner: FAQ
What is hardware scanning?
Hardware scanning is crucial to your infrastructure organization – it’s knowing what hardware you have and if it is functioning correctly. A hardware scanning tool will also tell you when your hardware has failed or is about to fail.
Why do I need a hardware scanner software?
Hardware is the first layer in an infrastructure – if it fails, everything else, from the operating systems to the services to the applications and processes will fail, too. Your hardware has multiple possible points of failure, and it is too important to rely on a person to check it. Using hardware scanner tools like Paessler PRTG that scan your hardware at regular intervals 24 hours, 7 days a week are crucial to keeping your business running.
Can PRTG scan and monitor all types of hardware?
Yes, PRTG's broad compatibility ensures you can monitor a wide range of hardware types across different manufacturers and protocols.
How do PRTG hardware scanning capabilities help to prevent hardware failures?
By providing early warnings and detailed diagnostics, PRTG enables you to take preemptive action to mitigate or entirely avoid hardware failures.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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