SCADA integration with PRTG
Watch the watcher & keep your SCADA system stable and reliable
- Collect real-time data from your IT as well as your OT network
- Keep an eye on the availability and health of the SCADA system hardware
- Receive custom alerts and notifications for proactive troubleshooting
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PRTG SCADA system integration: What you’ll find on this page
- Ensure your SCADA systems are up and running, with PRTG
- 3 reasons why PRTG is the SCADA monitoring tool of your choice
- What SCADA system monitoring looks like in PRTG
- Preconfigured sensors for monitoring your industrial environment
- Customer success story: Adani Electricity and Paessler PRTG
- Monitor integrated SCADA: FAQ
Ensure your SCADA systems are up and running, with PRTG
SCADA systems play a crucial role in OT networks that rely heavily on industrial automation. If they go down, the results will be costly.
However, while SCADA systems provide data about OT and production systems, this is only part of the picture. What about the hardware that supports the SCADA system? Or the status of Industrial PCs that are used in the industrial environment?
Paessler PRTG is comprehensive monitoring software that provides a holistic overview of your IT and OT – all in one place. Use it alongside control and execution systems (MES, DCS, Historian, BMS) to provide even more value for operators, engineers, and technicians.
PRTG makes SCADA system integration easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent industrial IT and OT network issues.
3 reasons why PRTG is the SCADA monitoring tool of your choice
Get the full picture of your converged IT and OT
In addition to OT metrics collected by SCADA systems, there are many other data points that are important for understanding an industrial environment.
PRTG collects real-time data from many areas of your infrastructure, for example:
- The health of switches (including metrics like port status and packet loss)
- The status of your UPS
- The memory and CPU usage of industrial PCs
- The health of industrial gateways
- The status of common IT devices like printers, servers, and much more.
Monitor the condition of your SCADA hardware
It’s also vital that you keep an eye on the availability and health of the hardware that your SCADA system runs on to make sure it works smoothly and efficiently.
PRTG lets you monitor SCADA data such as the CPU load, memory, storage space, performance, related databases and other metrics from the environment that your SCADA runs in.
Using SNMP, PRTG can also ensure that the systems themselves are up and running and provide alerts in the case of issues.
Receive custom alerts at different escalation levels
While a SCADA system already provides you with alarms when things go wrong in your OT network, PRTG can add a different level of alerting to ensure that nothing gets missed – such as warnings about the servers that the SCADA system runs on.
With PRTG, you can set thresholds so you’re alerted when conditions deviate from what is considered “normal”.
PRTG can also notify the right teams with targeted escalation notifications using various methods such as SMS, email, in-app push messages, and more.
What SCADA system monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring your IT and OT networks. Show SCADA system status, health, and performance in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot issues on the production floor.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Preconfigured OPC UA Server Status sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on an entire production line with PRTG
Start monitoring SCADA systems with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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The PRTG advantage: Preconfigured sensors for monitoring your industrial environment
PRTG works well together with SCADA systems, but that’s not all it does; it’s the ideal monitoring tool for all areas of your industrial infrastructure. OT network components and systems, industrial Ethernet devices, industrial gateways, IIoT devices, classic IT hardware: PRTG understands it all. And, with its preconfigured sensors that use common industrial technologies like OPC UA, Modbus, and MQTT, you get a holistic monitoring solution – all in one place.
MQTT sensors
MQTT Round Trip
The sensor MQTT Round Trip monitors the availability of an MQTT broker (server). The sensor connects to the broker as a publishing and subscribing client and sends the data packets using a predefined topic. It can show the following parameters:
- Publisher connection time
- Round trip time
- Round trip status
- Subscription connection time
MQTT Statistics
The sensor MQTT Statistics monitors an MQTT topic. The sensor can show the following parameters:
- Active topics
- Number of received messages
- Received payload
MQTT Subscribe Custom
The sensor MQTT Subscribe Custom monitors numeric values returned by an MQTT topic that the sensor subscribed to. The sensor can show, for example, environmental parameters like temperature, humidity, illuminance, or pressure.
Modbus sensors
Modbus RTU Custom
The sensor Modbus RTU Custom monitors custom numeric values returned by a Modbus Remote Terminal Unit (RTU). The sensor can show, for example, temperature and humidity.
Modbus TCP Custom
The sensor Modbus TCP Custom monitors custom numeric values returned by a Modbus Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) server. The sensor can show, for example, the available memory, voltage, and operating status.
OPC UA sensors
OPC UA Certificate
The sensor OPC UA Certificate monitors the certificate of an OPC UA server. The sensor can show the following parameters:
- Days to expiration
- Public key length
- Self-signed certificate
OPC UA Custom
The sensor OPC UA Custom monitors custom numeric values returned by specific OPC UA node IDs. The sensor can show, for example:
- CPU usage
- Available physical memory
- Fan speed
- Number of server messages
OPC US Server Status
The sensor OPC UA Server Status monitors the health status of an OPC UA server. The sensor can show the following parameters:
- Number of rejected requests and sessions
- Number of security-rejected requests and sessions
- Server status
- Number of sessions, session aborts, and session timeouts
- Number of subscriptions
- Uptime
Rittal sensor
SNMP Rittal CMC III Hardware Status
The sensor SNMP Rittal CMC III Hardware Status monitors the overall status of Rittal data center hardware, for example Rittal Computer Multi Control version 3 (CMC III) processing units, Rittal power distribution units (PDU), or Rittal IoT Interfaces and the hardware status of every attached external sensor.
Beckhoff sensor
Beckhoff IPC System Health
The sensor Beckhoff IPC System Health monitors the system health of Beckhoff industrial PCs. The sensor can show the following parameters:
- Available memory
- CPU load and temperature
- Mainboard temperature
- RAID controller status
PRTG makes SCADA system integration easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent industrial IT and OT network issues.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
Customer success story: Adani Electricity and Paessler PRTG ensure uninterrupted power supply for Mumbai
A great example of how PRTG can ensure the condition of a SCADA system can be found at Adani Electricity in India. There, PRTG plays a central role in monitoring the SCADA system, which runs on an Optical Fiber Cable network across 900 kilometers of cables.
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PRTG makes SCADA system integration easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent industrial IT and OT network issues.
Monitor integrated SCADA: FAQ
What is a SCADA system?
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are made up of SCADA software and hardware components that are used to supervise and control industrial processes.
SCADA systems monitor data in real time and give users a human-machine interface (HMI) for providing process commands to components such as control valves, actuators, motors, and more.
They are crucial for industrial organizations since they help to maintain efficiency, process data for smarter decisions, and communicate system issues to help mitigate downtime.
How do SCADA systems work?
SCADA systems are connected to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), which in turn gather data from sensors and devices in a plant.
This gathered data can be used for automated responses (such as reducing pressure in a system when it gets too high), insights into the production process, and for triggering alarms when there is a failure.
Where are SCADA systems used?
SCADA systems are used by a wide variety of companies and organizations. They can be implemented to monitor and control power grids, water treatment plants, processes on a production floor, and more. Metrics that are monitored include everything from pressure, power utilization and production time, ,to facility processes heating, ventilation, and HVAC systems of buildings.
Which SCADA systems can I integrate with PRTG?
With PRTG, you can monitor every SCADA system itself that supports OPC UA.
To bring PRTG alarms and metrics directly into your SCADA system, you need our product extension Paessler PRTG OPC UA Server. The following integrations have already been tested:
- Ignition
- atvise® scada
- SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)
- SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture
- AVEVA Edge
- FactoryTalk View (SE/ME)
- PcVue
- GENESIS64
- FlowChief
- VTscada
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
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- 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
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The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
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