What is SoftPerfect Network Scanner?
The SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a highly efficient and adaptable tool suitable for scanning both IPv4 and IPv6 networks, significantly improving various network management tasks. Its user-friendly interface, together with its lightweight and portable design, provides an extensive array of features and advanced capabilities that cater to professionals, occasional network administrators, and everyday users focused on computer security. This scanner enables users to ping devices, perform port scans, discover shared folders, and collect comprehensive information on network devices using various protocols such as WMI, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, and PowerShell. Furthermore, it can assess remote services, registries, files, and performance counters, offering customizable filtering and display settings for an enhanced user experience. Users also have the advantage of easily exporting their NetScan results in multiple formats, including XML, JSON, and more, facilitating straightforward data management and analysis. In addition to its robust functionalities, the tool’s versatility ensures it remains an essential resource for anyone involved in network administration or security assessments, making it a preferred choice for both simple and complex networking environments.
What is AdRem NetCrunch?
NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and custom data using technologies such as SNMP, WMI, REST APIs, and scripts.
NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Policy-based monitoring automatically applies monitoring settings, Monitoring Packs, thresholds, and alerts to matching devices and systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics.
Real-time dashboards and automatic Layer 2 and routing topology maps provide visibility into network status and performance. NetCrunch supports event correlation, dependency-aware alert suppression, predictive thresholds, escalation, and 40+ automated response actions, including script execution, notifications, webhooks, and integrations with external IT and collaboration tools.
NetCrunch also provides hardware and software inventory, network device configuration backup and change tracking, bandwidth monitoring, and network traffic analysis using NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. Distributed Monitoring Probes extend monitoring to remote and isolated locations, while REST APIs support integration and automation with external systems.
NetCrunch is self-hosted on Windows Server and can monitor on-premises, air-gapped, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.
Pricing Information
$1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes
NetCrunch licensing is based on the number of monitored nodes and network interfaces. Each node license includes one monitored interface, and additional interface licenses can be added when more network interfaces need to be monitored. Licensing is not based on individual sensors, checks, or metrics.