Integrating NetCrunch with other NMS

You can easily integrate NetCrunch with existing management systems to extend its capabilities.

If you are already using some management system and would like to team it with NetCrunch as an extension of the overall network management system.

Integration by SNMP traps

If your system uses SNMP, the best approach is to use it. You can monitor and collect data in NetCrunch and send alerts using SNMP traps to the external system. NetCrunch can automatically define SNMP traps for each alert defined, so after reading NetCrunch generated MIB, you can successfully receive these traps in an external system.

Integration by Event files

(hamburger menu)Settings Alerting & Notifications Alerting Scripts Add Alerting Script Add Logging Write to unique file This is the most effective method of transferring events from NetCrunch to an external program. You can use an alerting action that writes each alert to a separate, uniquely named file.

The action allows using (write) some program periodically scanning the folder and importing event files to the external system. In this way, the disk is used as the queue for alerts. Each event can be stored in XML format.

Webhook Action

(hamburger menu)Settings Alerting & Notifications Alerting Scripts Add Alerting Script Add Logging Trigger Webhook

A webhook is a simple action that sends an HTTP request to a given URL, with all event data in JSON or XML.

Integration by External Program

Unlike previous methods, this method should be used only for a small number of events, as it requires running the process for each transferred alert, which can be quite slow.

Exporting NetCrunch SNMP MIB with traps

(hamburger menu)Settings Monitoring Export NetCrunch SNMP MIB

After defining all alerts, you might decide to generate NetCrunch MIB, containing SNMP trap definitions for all NetCrunch-defined alerts.

Exporting Performance Trends Data

You can also periodically export performance data from NetCrunch and import it to the other systems.