NetCrunch

"Monitor your entire IT environment in just a few steps."

Kommentare: NetCrunch monitors our entire environment and lets us know what needs attention. We trust the software completely.

Vorteile: NetCrunch can monitor your entire IT environment, be it Windows, Linux, networking gear or something else. It comes with an enormous amount of monitoring packs, that are either detected automatically or that you can add manually to the nodes you monitor. These packs come with default triggers, based on the vendor documentation or best practices. This makes it very easy to get your monitoring and alerting up and running in a very short time.
Our license is based on the number of nodes, regardless of what you monitor on those nodes. That gives an advantage compared to the competition, although I have heard that the licensing might change in the future.
We had a number of small issues or monitoring questions. Support responds in the same day and is very professional and skilled.
NetCrunch can integrate with a number of other systems out of the box. It can also connect to IFTTT so we deliver alerts to a Telegram channel, no need for SMS.
The interface is easy to understand and customize.

Nachteile: There are not much things that I don't like, to be honest. Maybe the fact that there is a web interface, but for some more advanced changes you need the dedicated Windows client. But that is not an enormous drawback, because this client also notifies you of any alerts that are occurring.

"Tool for experts - get proactive"

Kommentare: Even with this excellent tool your own resources and time spent working with NetCrunch determine the level of your success. I have been using NetCrunch since around year 2000 in all companies I have worked - found it searching the Internet for monitoring tool and we've been together since :) Imagination and technical knowledge set the limits what you can do with it. With the latest major addition GrafCrunch visualization you can also get step closer to your business people and offer top level dashboards or perhaps in industrial sector make visual monitors of your factory automation. Anything is possible!

Vorteile: It does not much limit what you can do - your skills set the boundaries. Its development stays in speed with what you expect of such tools. Cost effective - I am using the Premium version

Nachteile: Perhaps some improvement on the NetCrunch server side needed - to get its own management module for that purpose

"Great for monitoring, send email, run scripts."

Kommentare: I use it to monitor approximately 40 servers, a mix of Windows, Linux and VMware.
It send me an email if a node its not responding, low on free disk or services that don't respond. There were a server that tomcat crashed regularly. Waiting for a patch, I've set Netcrunch to check the service. If its down, it restart it. If after 3 minutes its still down it send me an email. Really great! I monitor around 150 switches too, for node down, service down and statistics, the "Top Charts" is really cool! Overall its a really great software, I have the client on my workstation which is always opened! :) Eric.

Vorteile: It monitor services, it can even check a non-standard ports and execute scripts on alarms!

Nachteile: I cannot change the SSH port to execute scripts for a Macintosh server, I have only 1 but it would be cool.
But it can be changed for Linux servers.

"NetCrunch review"

Vorteile: NetCrunch is very easy to setup
Easy for me to manage 1000 computers, 100 servers and 100 switches in a single view of dashboard
NetCrunch is pretty lightweight in comparison to other solutions out there on the market

Nachteile: If your infrastructure is small it’s easy. As soon you have several locations you have a problem
Support systems is restricted to special hours when you want to speak to the team
Costing is not publicly listed, you have to request the team depending on your requirements

"the ROI for this monitoring and management system was immediate "

Kommentare: the ROI was immediate as the software detected problems that save mony and increase our customers service experience while saving operational costs

Vorteile: the product is easy to use . feet most of my needs for service monitoring and counter analyzing tools. the dashboard give full picture of network health status in single view
it save lots of manual operations checking network .trend view very helpful to analyze system over time
monitoring setup is very intuitive and easy to do
the system has self maintaining tools

Nachteile: the Linux inventory is not rich as the windows inventory data.
the unix bsd (non Linux) monitoring capabilities are very limited
it cant run several atlas in paralel