We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Being able to see the health of the network is most valuable. It is very strong in terms of stability and scalability. Their technical support is also good."
"Network management solution that's very stable and scalable. It has a straightforward installation, fast technical support, and multiple features such as reporting, network health analysis, etc."
"It is a good investment for features."
"The most valuable feature of Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is the monitoring of wired and wireless equipment."
"The reports are good."
"I really like Visual RAF. I use that a lot and then I use the up and down status reports because it'll send me emails and text messages when access points go up or down. That way, I'm aware of what's going on."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The integration point."
"Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista could improve by adding more cybersecurity features."
"I would like to see a little better reporting, not reporting features, the report maker to be a little better."
"It needs to be infused with more artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"Adding a reliable and proper heatmap for the access points would make this solution better."
"They should add more security features."
"The location of the WiFi connection should be available to all users."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is ranked 18th in Network Management Applications with 6 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is rated 9.0, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista writes "Helpful support, useful monitoring, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and Aruba Airwave, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista vs. DX Spectrum report.
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