We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OpenText Network Node Manager i based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The integration point."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"Real time network monitoring application: It is very stable, which provides quick root cause analysis (RCA) for any network faults."
"It gives us a good overview of what's happening in our networks and the devices in the networks."
"It is stable for fault and availability."
"You can utilize the main file from various vendors for integration."
"A good enterprise-level solution."
"Topology creation is the most valuable feature."
"The best feature is the solution's entire credibility with all vendors."
"If you install one node on Network Node Manager and want to scale it up, it's pretty easy to create more nodes."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"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."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"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."
"Right now, we have open tickets and they are not closing as expected."
"We had some issues with some of the features, some modules are not meeting expectations."
"Micro Focus Network Node Manager is not the best when it comes to drilling down for more visibility, especially regarding traffic."
"Only to improve the GUI."
"Reporting. Even though this is available in separate software (iSPI) there is potential in making the reporting more SLA-aware and more intuitive."
"Micro Focus Network Node Manager is not powered to drill down for traffic visibility."
"The deployment architecture and installation part needs improvement."
"As the technologies evolve, also these solutions or the monitoring tools should evolve to cover the progress in technology, including capabilities related to monitoring of virtualized devices today, as the DNS is on the table in this way."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while OpenText Network Node Manager i is ranked 10th in Network Management Applications with 23 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OpenText Network Node Manager i is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Network Node Manager i writes "Easy-to-implement product with a valuable map topology feature". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas OpenText Network Node Manager i is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Cisco DNA Center, Fortinet FortiManager and IBM Tivoli NetCool. See our DX Spectrum vs. OpenText Network Node Manager i report.
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