<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Maps

With the Maps feature, you can create web pages with monitoring status information in a customizable layout. You can also make live data overviews publicly available.

In this section:

• Introduction
• Start Maps
• Maps Overview
• Map Rotation
• Maps in Home Menu
• Working with Maps

Introduction

There are a lot of different options for the implementation of maps. For example, you can use this feature to:

• Create network maps with status icons for each device on the map.
• Create quick views of your network that can be shown on network operations center screens.
• Create a quick network overview for publishing on the intranet for management or other employees.
• Create a custom view of the most important sensors in your monitoring setup.
• Create Top 10 lists of the sensors of a specific group or device.

Technically, a map is a typical HTML web page. You can build a schema of your network by choosing from hundreds of device icons and connecting them with lines. A map can consist of the following elements:

• A set of map items, which can include device icons, sensor status icons, graphs, data tables, sensor lists, connection lines, geographical maps, or custom HTML code.
• An optional background image (a .jpg, .png, or .gif file, for example, your company logo, or a graphical view of your network).

You can also specify the size of the map. Using the map editor, you can place items anywhere on the map, and you can also change their size. Each map has a unique URL that you can use to link to the map. Users who want to access the map either need an account in your PRTG installation, or can access a public URL of the map if you enable the Public Access option. Public maps contain a unique map ID access key in the URL to block unwanted visitors.

PRTG comes with a preconfigured standard map that you can also edit or delete. The map is automatically created when you install PRTG for the first time. It is only visible to administrator users):

• Sample Dashboard: By default, this map shows a graphical structure of your device tree, a list of alarms, a geographical map, and more. This sample map has a 5***** priority so you can also open it under Home in the main menu bar. To not show it in the main menu bar, define a lower priority.

Start Maps

Click Maps in the main menu bar to view or add custom views of your network's status and monitoring data. Hover over Maps to show other menu items:

Maps Overview

In the All view, you see a list of all maps. Click the name of a map to view it. To add a new map, hover over and select Add Map from the menu.

Click the Edit button for the following options:

• Click the Map Rotation button to rotate between maps.
• Click the Clone button to create an exact copy of this map. As soon as you click this, the map is cloned.
• Click the Delete button to remove this map.
• Click the Settings button to edit this map's settings.

You can also define the priority of a map. Maps with a 5***** priority appear in the main menu bar under Home for direct selection (up to 10 entries).

For more information, see section Maps in Home Menu.

See also section Working with Table Lists. Additionally, the multi-edit functionality is available. This enables you to change properties of several objects simultaneously via bulk changes. For more information, see section Multi-Edit.

Map Rotation

With this feature, you can rotate through several maps or dashboards on one page. Map rotation lets you show different types of information on one screen based on time. You can compare this with a slide show. Follow the steps below to configure your own map rotation.

1. Open the Maps overview from the main menu bar.
2. Select the maps that you want to rotate using the Edit buttons.
3. The multi-edit menu appears.
4. Click Map Rotation in the multi-edit menu.
5. PRTG now shows the selected maps in rotation on a new page.
   This requires login credentials for PRTG.
6. You can change the time until a new map appears with the arrows symbol in the lower-right corner. Hover over the arrows symbol and choose from 10s, 30s, 60s (seconds), 10m (minutes), and Refresh now.

Public Map Rotation

You can also set up a public map rotation that you can use without login credentials. For this purpose, you have to create a custom URL that defines which maps publicly rotate. The public map rotation URL has this format: the address of your PRTG installation, followed by /public/mapshow.htm?ids=, followed by map IDs and secret keys.

1. Allow public access in the settings of the maps that you want to rotate.
2. Find the map IDs and secret keys to add them to the URL that opens the public map rotation.
1. To find the ID of a map, open the map with your web browser. The map ID is included in the URL of the map as value of the parameter id, for example, https://<yourprtgserver>/map.htm?id=2124, where the number 2124 is the needed ID.
2. To find the secret key of a map, open the settings of the map, make sure you have selected a public access option, and copy the entry of the Secret Key field.
3. Connect each map ID with the secret key of the same map using a colon, in this format: mapid:secretkey
4. Add all IDs with their secret keys to the URL for the public map rotation. Separate each mapid:secretkey token from the next mapid:secretkey token with a comma.
5. The complete URL has this format: https://yourprtgserver/public/mapshow.htm?ids=mapid1:secretkey1,mapid2:secretkey2,mapid3:secretkey3
   This is an example URL for public rotation of two maps:
   https://prtg.example.com/public/mapshow.htm?ids=9507:4049BEA1-B89C-4B5D-ACC4-3C8E00566EB8,9358:718D3CE1-DF00-4B92-AE8A-E0253B912C37
6. Open the URL with your browser and the public map rotation starts.
7. You can change the time until a new map appears with the arrows symbol in the lower-right corner. Hover over the arrows symbol and choose from 10s, 30s, 60s (seconds), 10m (minutes), and Refresh now.

Maps in Home Menu

You can add any map to Home in the main menu bar of the PRTG web interface. This option gives you quick access to your most important maps.

If you open a map via Home, it appears as a dashboard without the tabs that are available when opening a map via the Maps menu. In contrast to a map that you open via URL, your dashboard is embedded in the PRTG web interface with global header area and page footer.

You can control whether a map appears in the Home menu via priorities. Every map with a 5***** star priority appears as a single entry under Home. You can include up to 10 map entries in the Home menu.

1. Open the Maps overview via the main menu bar.
2. In the table list, look for the entry of the map that you want to add to the Home menu.
3. In column Priority, select 5***** stars for the desired map.

The map appears in the Home menu (manually refresh the page with F5 to immediately see the changes).

PRTG provides a sample dashboard in the Home menu by default. You can remove the sample dashboard and other dashboards from the menu by changing the priority to 4**** stars or lower.

Working with Maps

For detailed information on how to create and edit maps, and to learn how to make them available to others, see the following sections.

• Maps Step By Step
• Map Designer
• Maps Other Settings

 

Ajax Web Interface—Advanced Procedures—Topics

• Toplists
• Arrange Objects
• Clone Object
• Multi-Edit
• Create Device Template
• Show Dependencies
• Geo Maps
• Notifications
• Libraries
• Reports
• Maps
• Setup

Other Ajax Web Interface Sections

• Ajax Web Interface—Basic Procedures
• Ajax Web Interface—Device and Sensor Setup