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Heartbeat Monitor

Does NetCrunch have a heart-beat monitor that will alert me via sms that it's still monitoring ?

Applies to 6.x

The heartbeat event can only be configured at the atlas level. You can set it up to be generated every number of minutes or hours; or daily at specific time.

To create a Heartbeat alert in NetCrunch, please follow these steps:

  1. click on the 'Policies' button on main program toolbar
  2. double click on Atlas to edit monitoring policy
  3. click Add button to add an event
  4. from 'Basic' tab select NetCrunch heartbeat event and set it up
  5. click OK to finish
  6. in order to add an action, double click on the event you've created
  7. click Add button to set up an action that will be triggered with heartbeat event
  8. click OK to close window

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