We performed a comparison between CA eHealth [EOL] and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The most valuable feature of this solution is the fact that it sends me canned reports. It's easy to use and easy to update."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"I would like to see improved index shifting."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
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CA eHealth [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Management Applications while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. CA eHealth [EOL] is rated 7.4, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA eHealth [EOL] writes "It has a lot of data on a stable platform. It only has a few canned out-of-the-box reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". CA eHealth [EOL] is most compared with NetMaster Network Intelligence, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes.
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