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."Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"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's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"A good enterprise-level solution."
"Our monitoring and network teams of less than 100 people use this solution. The availability and fault monitoring are good."
"It is a scalable product."
"We do not have any issues stability-wise."
"The platform has good stability."
"Most valuable function would have to the internal causal engine and its root cause analyzer which keep us updated on critical errors and incidents in our network environment."
"It is stable for fault and availability."
"It gives us a good overview of what's happening in our networks and the devices in the networks."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"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."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"Micro Focus Network Node Manager is not powered to drill down for traffic visibility."
"The dashboards are not customizable and it's not user-friendly."
"Reporting. Even though this is available in separate software (iSPI) there is potential in making the reporting more SLA-aware and more intuitive."
"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."
"Right now, we have open tickets and they are not closing as expected."
"The resources utilized could be a bit higher, and that is one of the challenges that isn't optimized"
"The deployment architecture and installation part needs improvement."
"When I open a ticket, usually they respond very late. Some of the people I negotiate with seem undertrained."
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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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