We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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 integration point."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"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."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The features I've found the most useful are the plug-ins, the fact that you can connect almost everything to it. That's very useful."
"The most valuable feature is its support for different types of devices, where it can use all of the equipment that you need."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where I can have a single screen that provides a summary for hundreds of servers."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement. It is not available 24/7."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 6th in Network Monitoring Software with 54 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and vRealize Network Insight, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and Wireshark. See our DX Spectrum vs. Nagios XI report.
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