NetCrunch Release Notes

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Version 12.0.1

Fixes1
Features143

Release notes / All versions / 12.0.1

NetCrunch 12.0.1

143 new 1 fixed 5 deprecated

New features and improvements 143

  • NewAudit Log/Activity saves the configuration activity of users in a separate encrypted database
  • NewAWS Alarm Sensor allows keeping track of most important AWS alarms, and extends monitoring to warn about states like insufficient data
  • NewAWS Auto Scaling Sensor tracks changes within Auto Scaling Group and observe multiple states of group instances
  • NewAWS Cost Sensor monitors the use of budgets and estimated cost of using AWS services
  • NewAWS EBS Sensor monitors EBS in terms of performance and resources used by a single EBS instance
  • NewAWS EC2 Sensor monitors the network load, disk usage, and CPU utilization for each available EC2 instance resources
  • NewAWS ElastiCache Sensor offers insight into ElastiCache performance allowing settings triggers to take corrective action before performance issues occur
  • NewAWS ELB Sensor allows monitoring the health of user's applications and their performance in real-time
  • NewAWS SQS Sensor monitors performance and workload parameters to avoid queue overload and spot large number of empty receives
  • NewAzure API Management Services Sensor provides information on API metrics, such as Requests and Utilization to ensure its optimal performance
  • NewAzure CosmosDB Sensor monitors service availability and alerts user when availability drops
  • NewAzure Cost Sensor monitors the use of budgets and estimated cost of using Azure resources
  • NewAzure Insights Components Resource Sensor monitors user's live applications by detecting performance anomalies along with providing analytics tools
  • NewAzure Kubernetes Cluster Sensor allows collecting metrics for the managed Cluster notifying user e.g. when allocable memory is running out
  • NewAzure Load Balancer Sensor helps to evenly distribute loads (incoming network traffic) across a group of backend resources or servers
  • NewAzure Logic Apps Sensor allows you to monitor performance and behavior of the Microsoft Cloud technology called Azure Logic Apps
  • NewAzure Server Farm Sensor monitors Azure Server Farm resource, using Azure Monitor metrics
  • NewAzure Service Bus Sensor allows monitoring the metrics of the cloud apps connected to the Service Bus namespace.
  • NewAzure SQL DB Sensor allows monitoring performance and behavior of the databases managed in Azure SQL DB
  • NewAzure Storage Account Sensor detects potential service problems, monitors cost-related service usage, and observes key parameters of the service
  • NewAzure Website Sensor monitors the usage and performance of the web applications that are deployed to the cloud with Azure Web Apps.
  • NewCloud Service Node allows monitoring of a single cloud service (Azure, Amazon AWS, Google, and other services)
  • NewDark mode implemented in a lot of windows like status, top charts, alerts, and nodes
  • NewDevice Config Management allows adding custom profiles in YAML along with a built-in editor
  • NewDevice Config Management allows monitoring and storing configuration changes for a variety of devices such as switches, routers, firewalls, and other
  • NewDevice Config Sensor allows monitoring and backup of device configuration using Telnet or SSH protocol
  • NewEltek (SNMP) checks battery, fan, and rectifier as well as gathers information about voltage, current, and temperature.
  • NewExport Trends & Events allows exporting trends and events from NetCrunch using the NCCLI command-line utility
  • NewExtended Discovery Exclusions allows setting exclusions for given address space and specifying exclusions by e.g. IP address
  • NewGitlab Cloud Sensor monitors the status of the latest build/job on a specific project in GitLab cloud repository
  • NewGoogle Analytics Metrics Sensor monitors several metrics of a Google Analytics view using the Google Analytics Reporting API v4 and OAuth2
  • NewGoogle Analytics Users and Sessions Sensor measures metrics related to users and sessions based Google Analytics Dashboard
  • NewGoogle Drive Sensor monitors a Google Drive free storage and trash size using the Google API and OAuth2
  • NewGrafCrunch upgraded to Grafana based on version 7.x
  • NewGraphical Views are fully interactive and come with a new modern editor available in Desktop and Web Console
  • NewGUDE Expert PDU Energy 8341-Series (SNMP) informs about environmental issues like possible condensation or temperature/humidity fluctuations
  • NewHardware View (Windows nodes) shows data from Windows machines such as the amount of memory, number/kind of CPUs, and storage information
  • NewHillstone Firewall (SNMP) monitors multiple metrics from Hillstone Firewall e.g. IPSec attacks count, online users, dropped packets.
  • NewHillstone Firewall - System (SNMP) alarms if something is wrong with HA, fan, or power supply, informs about memory, CPU, and active sessions usage
  • NewHPE 3PAR StoreServ Sensor monitors state and utilization statistics of the storage objects
  • NewImproved Access Profile management is no longer limited to 64 profiles
  • NewImproved Active Alerts view provides Alert source column now
  • NewImproved Automated Full Screen Views and moved to web console
  • NewImproved Event Details window displays all types of operations related to a given alert
  • NewImproved Event Details window visualizes precisely all kinds of thresholds
  • NewImproved Trend Viewer - a new version allows using more types of charts and provides user with additional options to display min, max, and avg lines
  • NewInteractive Graph Widgets - update automatically (according to data time interval). Users can easily open trend viewer or given node menu
  • NewInteractive Widgets - all of the widgets are interactive and allow easily drilling down for the root cause analysis
  • NewInterface Monitoring Remote Probe supports SNMP and interface monitoring now
  • NewLimit Threshold collects values over a given period of time and notifies user if the limit is exceeded
  • NewMicrosoft 365 Service Status Sensor monitors the state of Microsoft 365 services and alerts you if some services are in a degraded or interrupted state
  • NewMicrosoft Cloud Applications- OneDrive Sensor monitors OneDrive storage usage using OneDrive API, and OAuth2 for authorization
  • NewMonitoring Dependencies Manager allows to easily review all monitoring dependencies
  • NewMonitoring Dependencies Manager enables dragging & dropping of its elements
  • NewMonitoring Dependencies Manager supports probes and remote address spaces
  • NewMonitoring Dependency is now possible to be rescanned
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Adaware Antivirus
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Adaware Total Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - APC ATS (SNMP) monitors Input/Output frequency, voltage, current, and power. Alerts when there are problems with the power supply.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - APC NetBotz Rack Monitor (SNMP) informs when any of multiple events occur, like smoke detection, temperature too high, and others.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Asustor Disk (SNMP) monitors free space and disk temperature
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Asustor System (SNMP) checks processor and memory utilization. Gathers information about system and CPU temperature, fan, and network
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Asustor UPS (SNMP) monitors battery status, charge level, and voltage
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Avast Premium Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - AVG Antivirus
  • NewMonitoring Pack - AVG Internet Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Axis Video (SNMP) alerts about failures and other undesirable events. Monitors also temperature.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - BitDefender
  • NewMonitoring Pack - BitDefender Parental Control
  • NewMonitoring Pack - BullGuard Antivirus
  • NewMonitoring Pack - BullGuard Internet Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - BullGuard Premium Protection
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Carel (SNMP) monitors multiple metrics (e.g. temperatures, fans, humidity) and alarms when something is wrong.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Cisco UCS - PSU and Fan (SNMP) checks fan, fan module, and PSU statuses
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Citrix Netscaler (SNMP) alerts if CPU/Memory usage is too high or there are too many server/client connections.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Comodo Antivirus and Internet Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Comodo Endpoint Protection
  • NewMonitoring Pack - eScan
  • NewMonitoring Pack - ESET
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Exchange 2016 monitors key Windows services and performance counters of the Mailbox multi-role server
  • NewMonitoring Pack - F-Secure
  • NewMonitoring Pack - G Data Antivirus
  • NewMonitoring Pack - G Data Internet Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - G Data Total Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Janitza monitors measurements of voltage, current and frequency, gathers data like active/reactive energy, real/reactive power
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Kaspersky Endpoint Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Kaspersky Home Products
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Kaspersky Security Center
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Kaspersky Small Office Security
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Linux - CPU (SNMP) monitors CPU load.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Linux - Disk (SNMP) monitors disk utilization, swap available, volume free space, and physical disk I/O operations
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Linux - Memory (SNMP) monitors system memory utilization.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Malwarebytes
  • NewMonitoring Pack - McAfee Total Protection
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Nasuni Filer - Statistics (SNMP) monitors transmitted and received bits/second, cache, and number of connected clients
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Nasuni Filer - System Health (SNMP) monitors updates, license usage, temperature, errors from Power Supply, and RAID
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Nasuni Filer - Volume (SNMP) informs about antivirus policy violations and state. Monitors also Volume state
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Norton
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Panda Dome
  • NewMonitoring Pack - pfSense (SNMP) collects statistics about firewall packet rates, alerts if the number of dropped packets is worrying
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Pingdom
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Ruckus - System Health (SNMP) alerts when memory usage or CPU utilization is high. Informs when services are disabled
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Socomec Modulys UPS (SNMP) informs about environmental, battery, and UPS issues. Monitors also Input and Output phases.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Socomec UPS (SNMP) gathers data about Input/Output Current, Frequency, Voltage. Informs about battery problems.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Sophos Endpoint Protection
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Sophos Home
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Trend Micro
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Tycon monitors voltages and currents on 4 on-board relays, the internal and external temperature of the device
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Veritas Backup Exec Agent monitors key Veritas Backup Exec Agent Windows Services.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Veritas Backup Exec Events monitors specific Veritas Backup Exec Windows Event Log events.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Veritas Backup Exec Server monitors key Veritas Backup Exec Server Windows Services.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Veritas NetBackup Client monitors key Veritas NetBackup Exec Client Windows Services.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Veritas NetBackup Server monitors key Veritas Backup Exec Agent Windows Services.
  • NewMonitoring Pack - VIPRE
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Webroot SecureAnywhere
  • NewMonitoring Pack - Windows Defender (2016-2019)
  • NewMonitoring Pack - ZoneAlarm
  • NewMonitoring Probe can be used both remotely for monitoring isolated networks and as additional monitoring engines for the NetCrunch server
  • NewMonitoring Targets allows finding all related monitors in one place and creating a new node if necessary
  • NewNetApp ONTAP Sensor monitors the health and performance of NetApp storage components
  • NewNetApp SANtricity Sensor collects various performance metrics and checks e.g. the current status of Storage Polls, Volumes, Controllers, Drives
  • NewNetCrunch Server Dashboard allows quick access to the current NetCrunch load and health, shows resource utilization history for the last 7 days
  • NewNew MP - Cybernetics iSAN Series Storage (SNMP) alerts when the temperature of the CPU or chassis is high. Informs also about disk, power supply, and array issues
  • NewNode Traffic view allows data to be presented in a cleaner way and searching through the talker's list
  • NewPalo Alto Firewall Sensor monitors IPSec site-to-site VPN tunnels configured on the Palo Alto device
  • NewPhysical Segments map can be easily dragged and zoomed at the given point like a normal map
  • NewRecent section in the Search field containing the last 5 clicked search results
  • NewRevamped overview dashboard with support for dark mode
  • NewRevamped top charts with support for dark mode
  • NewRouting Map could be searched and navigated like other maps
  • NewRouting map is zoomable and draggable like a regular map
  • NewSettings tab includes all the settings previously placed in the top menu
  • NewSNMP Views brings new engine supported by a monitoring probe. If the node has a writable SNMP profile, you can easily modify the device's SNMP data
  • NewSSL-related Sensors allow adding custom certificates to a designated folder
  • NewSSL-related Sensors allow additional root certificates not included by default in the Mozilla certificate package used by NetCrunch
  • NewStatus Dashboard brings new tooltips for a quick overview of particular nodes or alerts
  • NewTasks tab which is a small utility to track simple tasks with attachments
  • NewVeeam Backup & Replication Sensor monitors the capacity of backup repositories informs user if the available space in any repository is low
  • NewWindows Hardware Sensor (partial replacement for the old inventory module) tracks configuration changes and can notify user of a specific change
  • NewZoom Account Sensor reads actual configuration settings of Zoom account and monitors changes to the configuration of the Zoom account
  • NewZoom Operation Logs Sensor allows accessing the use of Zoom services on one's entire account every day of the month
  • NewZoom Plans Usage Sensor monitors usage of Zooms plans
  • NewZoom Status Sensor monitors the status of Zoom services

Fixes 1

  • MajorService Desk Plus ticket cannot be created for some of the language versions

Deprecated 5

  • DeprecatedInventory View tab - is replaced by Hardware Config node view
  • DeprecatedNetCrunch can't no longer be installed on Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows 8.1
  • DeprecatedPerformance views have been removed
  • DeprecatedRemoved 44 outdated Monitoring Packs for deprecated Anti-virus software (including Norton 360, Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8, McAfee Total Protection 2013 etc.)
  • DeprecatedRemoved Routing Map appearance options