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    Advanced SQL query monitoring

    Monitoring the size of individual databases in the SQL server isn't that straightforward. This article explains how to get the proper information from the system tables and transform it into counters that are collected automatically.

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    Advanced SSL Certificate monitoring

    Nowadays secure connections are common, sites/servers without certificates are flagged as 'unsafe' and people tend to avoid such places on the web. This article will demonstrate how you can easily monitor not only if certificates are about to expire or expired but several other properties included in it.

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    Extending monitoring capabilities with templates

    There are situations where nodes should be monitored in nearly the same way (with slight differences like credentials or slightly different alerting configuration). This article will show you how to create new templates based on other templates

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    The risks of not updating software

    Failing to update your software may expose your network to at least 5 types of risks. Are you ready to face them?

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    Script monitoring with NetCrunch

    Despite huge capabilities of monitoring, NetCrunch offers the possibility of executing and parsing any given script, this allows monitoring almost everything with any script on any machine. This article shows a very simple example of how script monitoring can be used to get data in specific conditions.

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    Monitoring of Windows Updates and Pending Reboots

    Updates are essential to keep network infrastructure safe and solid, NetCrunch 10.5 provides new functionality that allows monitoring of update status, missing updates, and failed installations. It can also notify when the system is running for too long without installing updates. This article shows how to check which updates are available and how to set these two essential sensors.

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    SNMP monitoring features in NetCrunch

    There is a lot of the ways of how we can monitor the condition, performance and availability of the devices with available SNMP service running on them. Learn how to gather the counters and states from various devices with the tools available in the NetCrunch.

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    Monitoring of Dell servers with iDRAC

    Dell Remote Access Controller, as the monitoring and management solution on Dell devices, contains a lot of useful information describing the performance and health state of server appliances. Check out following article to find out how to configure out the monitoring of iDRAC platform with the usage of DELL iDRAC IPMI sensor.

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    VoIP/SIP services monitoring

    Considering the VoIP services as one of the most important things to provide the connectivity between the workers and professionals in companies, it’s good to know that these services are properly running in our environments. In this article, let's have a closer look at the SIP sensor, which allows us to ensure the reliability of implemented VoIP/SIP services.

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    Monitoring IPMI Logs

    React to changes in the configuration of monitored devices and alerts related to their stats by checking the System Event Log entries using the IPMI Log Sensor.

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    Monitoring complex instances of the SNMP counters

    Sometimes the SNMP counter identifier is placed in a different table than a counter. NetCrunch 10.5 introduced a new way of monitoring such complex instances.

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    Monitoring operating systems - Windows System Views

    System views is a powerful tool to see the status of various aspects of the given system in real time. This article will focus on System Views on Windows-based machines

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  • Article Integrations

    How to send NetCrunch notification messages to Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams is the digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. This article will help you configure NetCrunch to send notification messages right into the Microsoft Teams channel.

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    How to send NetCrunch notification messages via Amazon Simple Notification Service

    Amazon Simple Notification Service is a web service that enables applications, end-users, and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud. This article explains how to configure NetCrunch to send notification messages via Amazon SNS.

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    Alert Escalation Scripts

    Define and customize how NetCrunch generates events, triggers alerts, and executes actions based on monitoring detections, metrics, and device status.

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    Managing and Tuning NetCrunch Alerts and Notifications

    Understand the various settings in NetCrunch that control alerting and notifications. Learn how to effectively manage and tune alerting to achieve the desired level of notification.

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    Automating NetCrunch Setup

    NetCrunch contains many time and effort saving features that seek to either minimize the requirements for excessive maintenance or configuration of your monitoring system. This article will focus on these time-saving features, how to configure and leverage them.

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    Monitoring Dependencies

    NetCrunch simplifies the task of monitoring by automatically determining device dependencies based on how your devices are connected to your network, eliminating the need to manually build device hierarchies to manage alerts.

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    CPU Performance Monitoring

    NetCrunch monitors CPU resource availability and performance for all your IT Infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers, switches and routers. Receive warnings and alerts in advance of poor device performance.

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    Network Auto-Discovery

    NetCrunch discovers all your critical IT infrastructure and deploys foundation monitoring strategies 20-50 times faster than other Network Monitoring Systems. Automatically discover new devices as you deploy them, without having to reconfigure your monitoring.

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