Migrating PRTG From One Server To Another
Description:
So we wanted to move PRTG from one server to another. Seems simple enough, let’s do this! I skipped licensing because we use the free version.
To Resolve:
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Install PRTG on destination server.
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Stop the Core and Probe services on original and target systems. I think that can be done through the admin tool, but I just used
services.msc
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On the source computer, copy and paste the following into a folder, zip it, and transfer to the destination server:
- Find the main files by launching PRTG Admin Tool => Core Server tab => Local Storage of Data files.. for me this was
C:\Program Data\PRTG
or something - Run =>
regedit
=> Navigate to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Paessler\PRTG Network Monitor
=> export this to the folder you will zip/transfer.
- Find the main files by launching PRTG Admin Tool => Core Server tab => Local Storage of Data files.. for me this was
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On the original computer, disable the services we stopped, on the destination server, start them.
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Poke around the PRTG Admin Tool and correct where appropriate. Then launch the web GUI and do the same there. Most of my stuff just imported just fine. NOTE: We don’t have remote probes setup so please follow the guide if you do, I recommend following it anyways as my environment is real simple and this is just basic notes.
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After making sure everything is correct, I then had to go to my switches and redirect their SNMP traffic to the new destination server.
References:
“How can I move (migrate) my PRTG installation to another computer?”
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