We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"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."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform."
"The most valuable feature is the event management capability."
"Probes are the best feature because they are well written which rarely requires you to write additional rules. These probes monitor activity within your environment."
"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
"It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions. A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
"Its technical support team takes longer to reply."
"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."
"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is ranked 7th in Event Monitoring with 10 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is rated 7.2. 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 IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus writes "Good event management features and supports SNMP devices well". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, BigPanda, ScienceLogic, IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
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