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."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"It is easy to implement."
"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."
"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."
"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We deployed the solution from new and completed the upgrades."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features in SolarWinds NPM are the network search and diagnostic tools."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"I found a lot of valuable features in SolarWinds NPM, such as the customized application monitoring that allows you to customize any monitoring and script customization, and you also have the option to deploy and upgrade SolarWinds NPM online, which is very useful for my organization."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"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."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
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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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