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 stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"I would like to see improved index shifting."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"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 CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
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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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