NetCrunch 10 Highlights

This year has been of tremendous work for us here at AdRem. We're happy to announce that our premier network monitoring suite - NetCrunch - will receive a major update just before the Holiday Season.

If you're a NetCrunch 9.3 user, you'll be glad to hear that we've made more than 1,200 changes and added numerous features since the last release!

There's lot to be excited about:

IPv6 Support

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Not much to explain. Every monitor, node and sensor accepts IPv6 addresses.

New and Redesigned Sensors

NetCrunch 10 includes new more scalable sensor monitoring engine. Some sensors have been consolidated and some re-designed. We also added many new sensors such as: SQL, WMI, SSH Text Log, SSL Certificate, Radius and File Data.

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NetFlow and Layer 2 maps improvements

NetFlow dashboard is available for every Atlas View. Layer 2 maps include many fixes and support trunks.

SNMP Improvements

NetCrunch comes with improved SNMPv3 support and thousands of new MIBs precompiled. The database now contains 8500 MIBs with roughly 800,000 objects, which makes it one of the largests MIB collections in the world. MIB compiler has been greatly improved.

Remote Probe

Remote Probes are basically remote monitoring agents. These agents can be installed behind NAT and and will monitor remote nodes and send data to NetCrunch.

Business Status Node

Think of it in terms of a virtual node. Business Status Node allows the user to combine status of various elements such as nodes, services or sensors into one, virtual node status. With this node you easily define status for critical or redundant elements.

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Remote Sensor Node

You can create a node which will receive data from a remote agent. You can easily create a monitoring agent (in few script lines) and send data using REST API to such node.

Node Monitoring Templates

NetCrunch allows for easy changing of settings for multiple nodes. Now you can define a template for the node which synchronizes settings for sensors, monitoring packs and monitors for multiple nodes automatically.

Organizational Groups

Managing views for organizational groups has never been easier. Add nodes to an organizational group and assign a user to given group. In the result, the user will see nodes from the given group only. There is no need to create separate views, as all views will be filtered accordingly. Organizational groups are supported in Web Console and in GrafCrunch.

New Integrations

We added support for sending MQTT messages and support for SMS Eagle and AlertOps services.

Performance and Other Improvements

NetCrunch server is almost 200% faster than the previous version. It allows more nodes to be monitored and reduces processor utilization. Of course, the new version includes numerous bug fixes, security updates and overall stability fixes. There are many other improvements though. For example, you can define redundant SMTP servers to be used for email notifications. We improved node discovery process and event suppression (enabled by default now).

Summary

In sum, whether you've been interested in monitoring your IPv6 devices, or looking forward to utilizing Remote Probes in your ever-expanding network, NetCrunch 10 will be one of the most exciting, and feature-packed releases yet. Keep posted to our website for the latest download link and update your NetCrunch to the latest version as soon as it's released in December 2017.

Stay tuned!

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