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."Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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 most valuable feature is the event management capability."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform."
"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."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"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."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"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."
"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."
"Its technical support team takes longer to reply."
"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 cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management, whereas IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is most compared with ServiceNow IT Operations Management, IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, ScienceLogic, BigPanda and BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
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