NetCrunch is available in Premium and Premium XE editions. AdRem recommends a dedicated machine to run the XE version on networks with several hundred nodes, and the Premium edition for a network with just "a few hundred" nodes. The more scalable XE package, which we tested, is intended for complex monitoring; it has more robust recovery mechanisms and better optimization for high-end CPUs. It can map the physical network topology, suppress events if a device fails, and ignore some devices if sufficient time or bandwidth is not available to complete the sampling process within the allocated window.
NetCrunch Premium sells for $3,395, while NetCrunch Premium XE is $4,995 for one Windows console and an unlimited number of nodes--competitive with packages such as Castle Rock Computing's SNMPc and Ipswitch's WhatsUp Professional.
Upon start-up, NetCrunch presents a blank "atlas" of all known networks and nodes. We defined and ran a series of scans and probes to populate the atlas database and could see the resulting networks and nodes in dynamic "map" views set to our specifications.
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