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."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"I would like to see improved index shifting."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"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."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
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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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