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."
"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"One of the things that I like about DX Infrastructure is that the topology is good enough to see what is happening in the infrastructure. You also get alerts if something is happening in the network. There are many features and benefits. It is serving our customers in knowing exactly how their network is performing in terms of reliability. It also helps them in planning the capacity. They know how much bandwidth the branches are consuming."
"It is very scalable."
"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."
"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."
"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"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."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"One of the challenges with SolarWinds is that in order to pull the data, we have to have a lot of false positives."
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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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