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Adding new counters to Top Charts

Sometimes you'd like to add a specific chart to the Top Chart view, but the required counter is not monitored yet. This article will show you how to do it.

Sending NetCrunch alerts to Slack channel

You can use NetCrunch to send notifications and messages to various web services. In this article, we will explain how to configure your NetCrunch to send messages to a Slack channel.

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Converting NetCrunch messages into Trello cards

One of the newest features of NetCrunch is integration with external service providers. This article will show you how you can integrate NetCrunch with Trello board so that NetCrunch messages become cards in specific lists.

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Connecting new GrafCrunch to multiple NetCrunch servers

It is now possible to have multiple servers as data sources in your GrafCrunch application. Learn how to include them and create graphs from different data sources.

NetCrunch 9.2 Quick Overview

Nominally only minor release, NetCrunch 9.2 is a major step forward. This document just briefly summarizes the most important changes out of over 800 change requests processed.

Solving poor GSM signal in the server room to deliver text message alerts

Cell phone signal is often weakened or even blocked in the server room because of the building construction elements. Learn how you can use external antenna or repeater to fix it and effectively send text messages (SMS) from NetCrunch.

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Application monitoring - adding custom applications to NetCrunch flow monitoring

NetCrunch recognizes flow traffic from thousands of applications out of the box. See how you can easily add your own definitions to correctly monitor less common or custom applications that are used in your network.

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Correct Monitoring of Windows Processes on multi-core machines

This article will explain how NetCrunch monitors Windows processes and why these values are wrong in perfmon.

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Monitoring External Events in NetCrunch

Using multiple tools to catch every SNMP trap or SYSLOG message might be hard. NetCrunch simplifies this task with the External Events window and lets you fine-tune your log and SNMP monitoring:

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Optimizing SNMP Monitoring in NetCrunch

This article will explain reasons for most common SNMP monitoring problems, describing ways to fine-tune SNMP monitoring settings in NetCrunch. Learn how to monitor without stressing your SNMP device.

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Monitoring printer ink level

Learn how you can define new device type (in our case - printer), browse through its MIBs and create new monitoring pack to alert you when the ink level is too low.

Monitoring your network from a Mini PC

Monitoring small networks doesn't require a big server room! Learn how NetCrunch works on Mini PCs and how easy it is to monitor your network without an expensive monitoring hardware.

Monitoring Cisco IP SLA operations

Learn how NetCrunch visualizes IP SLA operations and how to monitor it.

Using Custom Detail Fields for daily tasks

NetCrunch allows you to create views and folders dynamically, based on your settings, this article will show you how to create your own views based on custom fields that may be added to any node.

Advanced traffic analysis in NetCrunch with Cisco NBAR and NetFlow

If you want to know how various applications and users influence the structure of your traffic, NetCrunch gives you predefined views to do just that. It supports Cisco NBAR protocol to recognize most popular applications, but you can also add your own application definition so that its traffic is properly recognized and reflected in the traffic analysis of your network.

NetCrunch fault tolerance cluster with VMware

Learn how you can ensure high availability of your NetCrunch installation on a virtual machine with VMware 6.0 or later. This is the recommended option to protect against the server hardware failure and provide continuous monitoring of your network environment.

Using iMacros with NetCrunch

Read how you can use iMacros for web page monitoring and send results to NetCrunch Open Monitor. You can also set status of monitoring on the graphical map using widgets. This sample was created using iMacros Enterprise Edition.

Getting Started with GrafCrunch

The latest version of NetCrunch comes with a fork of the open source project Grafana. One of the top open source performance visualization projects, it greatly increases the possibilities of creating live performance dashboards and allows you to present data from various sources. Read article about how to install GrafCrunch and connect it to NetCrunch Server.

Integrating NetCrunch with SCOM

In this article you will learn how to integrate NetCrunch with SCOM in under an hour. It will guide you through the configuration of both NetCrunch and SCOM.

Monitoring Google Analytics with NetCrunch

We will show you a small example which monitors the page views of your webpage. For more information about what is possible to monitor with Google Analytics please visit the Google Analytics webpage.