We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud 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."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"Technical support is great."
"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The most valuable features in SolarWinds NPM are the network search and diagnostic tools."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"Stability."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"The product is scalable, but at a cost. Extra modules have to be purchased for each extra server. The initial set up isn't complex, but will require someone who is experienced with the network monitoring system"
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 26th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 8 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 30 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "A simple product that is easy to deploy and very easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "Simple to set up with good visualizations and helpful support". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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