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."
"What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server."
"It is easy to implement."
"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"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."
"Great out-of-the-box capability."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"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."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The scalability can be better."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
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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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