NetCrunch

AdRem NetCrunch is a commercial software product for agentless, cross-platform network monitoring developed by AdRem Software, Inc.
The program monitors 65 network services, Windows applications; Windows, Linux, NetWare, BSD, Mac OS X systems and SNMP (v1-3) devices without agents; centralizes fault management by collecting and alerting on events from sources including Windows Event Log, syslogs, and SNMP traps; presents physical and logical network topology as automatically updated dynamic graphical views.
Features
AdRem NetCrunch key features:
*Auto-discovery- initial and scheduled discovery and classification of network resources
*Network views - physical and logical network topology including predefined views like: IP networks, Routing Map, Physical segments, Servers, Maps with Issues, and others.
*Automatic monitoring dependencies (incl. ESX hosts) - view dependent nodes, and prevent cascading alerts from dependent nodes.
*Network Self-Healing - set corrective actions to be taken in response to an alert
*Event management - events from Windows, Syslog and SNMP traps
*Monitoring policies - sets of rules defining events to be monitored and data to be collected for later reporting, including predefined policies for:
**Operating system - Windows (Active Directory, Network Services Health, Security Audit, Terminal Services, Windows Server, Basic Windows Monitoring), Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Netware, Other (AIX, AS/400, MIB-II host resources).
**Hardware - Network devices (Nortel, Alcatel OmniSwitch, Cisco), IBM Director, Dell OpenManage, HP Systems Insight Manager, APC PowerChute.
**Applications - Microsoft (Exchange 2003, IIS 5.0/6.0, ISA Server 2000, ISA Server 2004, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000, MS SQL Server 2005), APC Windows Events, ARCServe, CA eTrust Alert Manager, Lotus Notes 6, McAfee AlertManager, Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Oracle 9i, Sophos Enterprise Manager, Trend Micro ServerProtect, Veritas Backup Exec.
*Availability monitoring - network devices and services (HTTP, POP3, SMTP, etc.)
*Performance monitoring - real-time statistics, multi-server charts, and performance trends (devices, systems, and applications)
*Long-term trend analysis - reports generated on demand or delivered on schedule via email.
*Remote access - remote administration console and access via web browser.
*User experience monitors - advanced monitoring of crucial network services. The program simulates user's action e.g. sends an email for POP3 service monitoring, etc.
*Smart monitoring - limiting monitoring traffic for specific sub networks.
*Inventory - ability to gather the basic inventory information of Windows machines (i.e. mainboard, processor type and memory), with options to schedule inventory audits to be performed, automatically discover and view installed software
*Localization - language versions of AdRem NetCrunch include: English, Japanese, Polish, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
*TLS encryption - support for sending emails to external SMTP servers
*SNMPv3 encryption - DES, 3DES, AES 128, AES 192 and AES 256 keys
*Automatically sets monitoring dependencies - prevents alert floods when one node goes down
*IP SLA monitoring
*Service desk and messaging service integration with: Freshdesk, HipChat, IFTTT, PagerDuty, Slack, Trello, Twitter and ZenDesk.
*GrafCrunch fork of the open-source Grafana dashboarding utility
Platform
The AdRem NetCrunch Server runs on Windows 2008 R2 x64 or newer. The AdRem NetCrunch Remote Administration Console runs on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista SP2+.
Editions
AdRem NetCrunch is available in two versions: Premium and Premium XE. The Premium XE edition is a scalable version optimized for larger or more intensively monitored networks and is intended to be run on a dedicated machine. Features exclusive to Premium XE are:
*Prioritized monitoring
*False alert detection
*IP SLA sensor
*External alerts
*Alert correlation
*Alerting conditions
*VLAN support
*Support for STP, CDP and SONMP
*Optimization for scalability
Technology overview
*Client-server architecture: Users manages the NetCrunch Server using Remote Administration Consoles.
*Multithreading: NetCrunch uses multithreading to take advantage of multi-core x64 machines.
*Prioritized monitoring: NetCrunch automatically sets up node monitoring order and time upon monitoring dependencies hierarchy.
*Event suppression: In case of failure of an intermediate node, the program suppresses alerts from nodes located beyond that node.
*Storage: Embedded SQL and NoSQL databases
*Web access: By implementing AJAX technology, server/browser interactions run asynchronously without reloading pages.

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