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."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"I would like to see improved index shifting."
"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."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"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."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
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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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