What is Symantec Server Management Suite?
The Symantec Server Management Suite provides a comprehensive toolkit designed for IT professionals to effectively manage both physical and virtual servers across a wide array of platforms. This suite empowers users with the ability to provision, oversee, automate, and monitor servers all from a single, streamlined console. By leveraging these tools, organizations can optimize their server management practices, reduce the frequency of service interruptions, and enhance overall uptime. Implementing lightweight monitoring techniques enables the assessment of server health, while integrated remediation options support efficient troubleshooting to decrease downtime. In addition, the suite facilitates the automation and optimization of various processes such as discovery, inventory management, deployment, and provisioning for both physical and virtual environments. Moreover, it centralizes and simplifies the detection and resolution of security vulnerabilities through the automated deployment of patches, thereby creating a more secure and dependable server ecosystem. This holistic strategy in server management ultimately fosters greater operational efficiency, mitigates risk for organizations, and contributes to a more resilient IT infrastructure. Consequently, the integration of such robust capabilities significantly enhances the overall effectiveness of IT operations.
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.