PRTG Network Monitor
What is PRTG Network Monitor?
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor monitors the health and performance of physical and virtual IT, OT, and IoT infrastructures, on premises or in the cloud. PRTG Network Monitor monitors network devices (servers, switches, routers, firewalls), virtual environments, applications, services, websites, operating systems, network traffic, environmental parameters, entire data centers, resource consumption, and more.
Why Should You Use the PRTG Network Monitor Connector?
The PRTG Network Monitor connector provides visibility into the assets in your environment. You can use this visibility to:
ensure assets are managed per your security policies
derive relationships between assets, users, applications, and data
How Does This Connector Work?
Lucidum executes read-only requests to the PRTG PRTG Network Monitor REST API and ingests only meta-data about PRTG Network Monitor devices. Lucidum does not retrieve any data stored on your assets.
Configuring the Connector in Lucidum
Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
URL | The URL for the PRTG Network Monitor API. | |
API Key | PRTG Network Monitor API token. You can add, edit, and delete API keys in the account settings on the API Keys tab. | ************ |
Verify SSL. | For future use. |
Parameters
URL (required): The URL of the PRTG Network Monitor API
API Token (required): PRTG Network Monitor API token. You can add, edit, and delete your API keys in the account settings on the API Keys tab. Refer to https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/http_api#authentication for more details
Verify SSL (optional, default is false): Verify the SSL certificate or not
Source Documentation
Creating the User Account
To create the user account for use with the Lucidum connector for the PRTG Network Monitor:
https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/user_accounts#addaccount
Note that the user account should have Read-Only access. You then must generate an API Key for the user.
Creating the API Key
To create the API key for use with the Lucidum connector for the PRTG Network Monitor:
https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/api_keys
Required Permissions
The User Account and API Key should have Read-Only access.
https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/access_rights_management#group_overview
API Documentation
https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/application_programming_interface_(api)_definition