PRTG Manual: WMI Security Center Sensor

Performance impact

• This sensor has a high performance impact. Stay below 200 WMI sensors per probe. Above this number, consider using multiple remote probes for load balancing.

WoW64

• This sensor requires WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) for target systems that run Windows Server 2016.

Windows version

• This sensor requires at least Windows Vista on the target system.
• This sensor does not run on Windows Server operating systems (Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016) because the Windows Security Center / Windows Action Center is only available on client Windows versions.

Credentials

• This sensor requires credentials for Windows systems.

IPv6

• This sensor supports IPv6.

Lookups

• This sensor uses lookups to determine the status values of one or more channels.

Hosted probe

You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.

Security Center Product

Select the security center products that you want to monitor. PRTG creates one sensor for each product that you select.

You see a list showing the Name and Type of all security products that the sensor finds in the Windows Security Center on the target device. If there are no products, you see a corresponding message.

Display Name

The display name of the security center product that this sensor monitors.

Type

The type of the security center product that this sensor monitors.

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

• Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result.

• Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].Data.txt. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how this sensor shows different channels:

• Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
• Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
  You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above.

Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Downtime

In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status

Status

The status code of the security product

• Up status: Running - Up To Date (status code 4)
• Warning status: Running - Out Of Date (status code 2)
• Down status: Not Running - Out Of Date (status code 1), Not Running - Up To Date (status code 3), Unknown (status code 0)

This channel is the primary channel by default.