Profiler (UI)

The Profiler application allows you to maintain a profile for each system you want to monitor with Scansor sensors. Every profile holds some parameters like hostname and credentials which are needed to connect to the different systems. You can also define sensor-specific parameters to configure the sensor behaviour for each of your systems.

Start profiler

You can open the Profiler by clicking the Profiler icon (shortcut) on the desktop of the computer where Scansor has been installed on. You can also open the Windows Explorer and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\Custom Sensors\EXEXML (The drive letter can be different when you installed Scansor somewhere else) and double click on Profiler.exe.

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When you start the profiler for the first time, you will face a message that no valid license is installed:

To obtain a valid demo or full license, please refer to our Scansor Webshop.

Maintain profiles

Add

To add a new profile, click the + button:

Fill out the fields as needed. This may depend on the Sensor(s) you would like to cover with this profile. If you don’t know which information is needed by a sensor you can only fill in a profile name and let the sensor tell you what it needs, by adding it in PRTG as described in Add a sensor.

Otherwise you’ll find the required general and sensor specific parameters in each sensor documentation.

As an example we use the SAP RFC Monitor. So, in the general section of the profiler you need to define at least the required values for Host, SAPSID, SAPClient, SAPUsername and SAPPassword in order to you this sensor with the configured profile. In case the profile is also used by a database sensor then you need to define additional parameters like DBName, DBInstance, DBPort, DBUsername and DBPassword for the depending sensor.

In the "Sensor-specific parameters" tab you can configure additional parameters that might be required by a specific sensor. In the case of the SAP RFC Monitor we need to define the names of the RFC connections which need to be monitored. Therefore you scroll down to SAP RFC Monitor and click on the parameter "RFCName". In the right section, you can fill the RFC names you want to check as described in the parameter documentation. After filling out all required fields click the save button at the bottom of the user interface.

Clone

To clone a profile, select the profile you want to clone and click the clone button:

Delete

To delete a profile, select the profile you want to delete and click the delete button:

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Take care, there’s no possibility to restore a profile after it has been deleted! To take a manual backup of your profiles, just copy the file profiles.db to a safe place and restore it if necessary.

Settings

To open the settings dialog, click on the cogwheel button in the upper right corner:

License

During the license activation process in the Scansor Webshop, you will be asked for your MachineID. Copy the value from the field "Machine key" to the depending field in the activation process: Put the received license key to the field "License key". After pasting the key the information box below should show a green state and the information about how many sensors you can use and for how long the license is valid: Don't forget to hit the "✔" button to save the changes:

Reset license counter

Scansor is not able to recognize when you remove sensors in PRTG. Therefore the license counter doesn't decrease after you deleted some sensors. Just hit the button in the section "Reset License Counter" to set the counter to zero. After that, all used sensors will be counted again after their next execution.

SNC settings

In the SNC settings you can specify the path to the sapcrypto library and provide the own SNC name which should be used to establish secure connections via RFC. Please follow the steps under Using SNC to prepare Scansor to use SNC.

Use the QOP value to set the quality of protection as follows:

Value	Description
1	Only encrypt authentication
2	Protect integrity (Authentication)
3	Protection of confidentiality (Integrity and authentication)
8	Use proposed setting from the server
9	Use maximum protection

Expert settings

Only use the expert settings if someone of our support is guiding you:

About

Use the "About" tab to get information about your installed version: