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."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."
"DX UIM is scalable."
"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."
"Technical support is great."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."
"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"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."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 25th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 120 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 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 "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, 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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