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PRTG Manual: Differences between PRTG on premises and PRTG hosted by Paessler

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See below for the differences between the settings and features that PRTG on premises and PRTG hosted by Paessler have to offer.

Licensing, Payment, Infrastructure

Topic	PRTG on premises	PRTG hosted by Paessler
Trial period	30 days	10 days
Freeware	freeware (100 sensors) available	no freeware, smallest edition is PRTG 500
Payment	one-time license fee plus yearly maintenance	monthly fee
PRTG edition size flexibility	upgrade only	upgrade or downgrade
Maximum installation size	unrestricted	5,000 sensors
PRTG update management	done by user	done by Paessler

Features

Feature	PRTG on premises	PRTG hosted by Paessler
Local probe	Yes	No
Hosted probe	No	Yes
Cluster	Yes	No
Freeware (100 sensors)	Yes	No
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access to core server	Yes	No
Historic data purging (manually defined)	Yes	No
Active Directory integration	Yes	No
License settings via PRTG web interface	Yes	No
Recommended Sensors on local probe/hosted probe	Yes	No
Auto-discovery for groups on local probe/hosted probe	Yes	No
Mini probes	Yes	No
Device tools on local probe/hosted probe	Yes	No
Proxy server settings	Yes	No
System information on local probe/hosted probe	Yes	No
PRTG Administration Tool on PRTG core server	Yes	No
Notification methods: Add Entry to Event Log Syslog Message SNMP Trap Message Execute Program	Yes	No
Re-login request on setup pages after 15 minutes	Yes	No
IPv6 on local probe/hosted probe	Yes	No

Sensors on the Hosted Probe of PRTG hosted by Paessler

You can use the following sensors on a remote probe device.

Sensors to Be Used on a Remote Probe Device
Active Directory Replication Errors sensor
ADO SQL v2 sensor
Dell PowerVault MDi Physical Disk sensor
Dell PowerVault MDi Logical Disk sensor
Enterprise Virtual Array sensor
Event Log (Windows API) sensor
Exchange Backup (PowerShell) sensor
Exchange Database DAG (PowerShell) sensor
Exchange Database (PowerShell) sensor
Exchange Mailbox (PowerShell) sensor
Exchange Mail Queue (PowerShell) sensor
Exchange Public Folder (PowerShell) sensor
EXE/Script sensor
EXE/Script Advanced sensor
File sensor
File Content sensor
Folder sensor
HTTP Full Web Page sensor
HTTP Push Count sensor
HTTP Push Data sensor
HTTP Push Data Advanced sensor
Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volume Disk Free sensor
Hyper-V Host Server sensor
Hyper-V Virtual Network Adapter sensor
Hyper-V Virtual Machine sensor
Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device sensor
IPFIX sensor
IPFIX (Custom) sensor
IPMI System Health sensor
jFlow v5 sensor
jFlow v5 (Custom) sensor
Microsoft SQL v2 sensor
MySQL v2 sensor
NetFlow v5 sensor
NetFlow v5 (Custom) sensor
NetFlow v9 sensor
NetFlow v9 (Custom) sensor
Oracle SQL v2 sensor
Oracle Tablespace sensor
Packet Sniffer sensor
Packet Sniffer (Custom) sensor
PerfCounter Custom sensor
PerfCounter IIS Application Pool sensor
Port sensor
Port Range sensor
PostgreSQL sensor
Python Script Advanced sensor
QoS (Quality of Service) One Way sensor
QoS (Quality of Service) Round Trip sensor
sFlow sensor
sFlow (Custom) sensor
Share Disk Free sensor
SMTP sensor
SNMP Trap Receiver sensor
Syslog Receiver sensor
Windows CPU Load sensor
Windows IIS 6.0 SMTP Received sensor
Windows IIS 6.0 SMTP Sent sensor
Windows IIS Application sensor
Windows MSMQ Queue Length sensor
Windows Network Card sensor
Windows Pagefile sensor
Windows Physical Disk I/O sensor
Windows Print Queue sensor
Windows Process sensor
Windows System Uptime sensor
Windows Updates Status (PowerShell) sensor
WMI Battery sensor
WMI Custom sensor
WMI Custom String sensor
WMI Disk Health sensor
WMI Event Log sensor
WMI Exchange Server sensor
WMI Exchange Transport Queue sensor
WMI File sensor
WMI Free Disk Space (Multi Disk) sensor
WMI HDD Health sensor
WMI Logical Disk I/O sensor
WMI Memory sensor
WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2005 sensor (Deprecated)
WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2008 sensor
WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2012 sensor
WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2014 sensor
WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2016 sensor
WMI Remote Ping sensor
WMI Security Center sensor
WMI Service sensor
WMI Share sensor
WMI SharePoint Process sensor
WMI Storage Pool sensor
WMI Terminal Services (Windows 2008+) sensor
WMI Terminal Services (Windows XP/Vista/2003) sensor
WMI UTC Time sensor
WMI Vital System Data v2 sensor
WMI Volume sensor
WSUS Statistics sensor

For performance reasons, you cannot add these sensors to the hosted probe of a PRTG hosted by Paessler instance.

Settings

These settings are only available in PRTG on premises.

Setting Title	Setting Name
Auto-Update	When a New Version is Available
	Installation Time
	Release Channel
Notification Templates	Add Entry To Event Log
	Send Syslog Message
	Send SNMP Trap
	Execute Program
Core & Probes	Proxy Configuration
	Probe Connection IPs
	Mini Probes
	Mini Probe Port
Administrative Tools for Probes	Restart Local Probe
Scanning Intervals	Available Intervals (definition of individual intervals)
Notification Delivery	SMTP Delivery (everything but sender email and name)
	SMS Delivery
Recommended Sensors Detection	Detection Engine
User Interface (Website)	DNS Name
	Google Analytics Tracking ID
User Interface (Web Server)	IP Address for Web Server
	TCP Port for Web Server
	Web Server Port
	Web Server Security
	Connection Security
	Active IP Address/Port Combination(s)
User Accounts	Login Name
	Password
	Passhash
Administrative Tools for the Core Server	Create Configuration Snapshot
	Write Core Status File
	Clear Caches
	Load Lookups and File Lists
	Recalculate PRTG Graph Data Cache
	Restart PRTG core server service
	Reload Logging Configuration
Advanced Network Analysis	System Information
Scheduled Restart Settings (Local Probe)	Restart Options
	Restart Schedule
	Specify Day
	Specify Hour

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