PRTG Manual: PRTG Export Templates
PRTG provides the ability to create new devices and sensors by cloning existing devices and sensors. Cloning an existing device or sensor provides the ability to easily apply a base configuration to the cloned device. When UVexplorer exports a device to PRTG it can leverage this cloning ability ensuring your PRTG specific configurations are applied to all exported devices of a given type.
To specify a device/sensor to use as a base configuration UVexplorer uses the PRTG tags associated with the device/sensor. Once a PRTG device/sensor has been assigned a tag, that tag can be mapped within UVexplorer to a device type, indicating that all devices of that type should be created by first cloning the PRTG device with the same tag.
Note: It is recommended you keep tags used with templates unique per device/sensor.
The templates can be managed in the PRTG export templates dialog. To open the dialog select 'PRTG Export Settings' in the 'Settings' ribbon. The dialog can also be opened from the edit templates button in each of the PRTG export dialogs.
Template tags can be specified for each UVexplorer category or device group. To configure the templates for a category/group select it in the navigation pane on the right.
Device/Group Template Tag:
Device/Group template tag specifies the tag on a template PRTG device or a template PRTG group. In the case that the tag matches a PRTG group, a device in the specified category is exported with the same PRTG group structure as the template. For example, the top-level group (or parent group) will be named after the device, and all sub-devices under the group will be configured as PRTG devices with the IP Address/Hostname of the exported device.
If the tag matches a PRTG device, all devices in the specified category will be exported as clones of the template device.
Note: Group tags are given priority over a Device tag and therefore should not be "mixed". Either this template maps to a PRTG group template or to a PRTG device template. Not both. To view the tags available on the PRTG devices select the 'Browse' button.
Sensor Template Tags:
Sensor template tags specifies the tags of the sensors to clone and include. To specify multiple sensor tags for a category tags can be separated by comma or space. To view the tags available on the PRTG sensors select the 'Browse' button.
If you have specific PRTG settings you want configured for all devices that support the SNMP protocol. You would start by creating and configuring a device within PRTG with your desired PRTG settings. You would then add a unique PRTG tag to the device such as 'uvexplorer_snmp_template'. Within
