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."
"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"
"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."
"DX UIM is scalable."
"The benefit is easy installation. Thus, the model approach of the product and out-of-the-box probes, which deliver direct value."
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"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 gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"Technical support is very helpful with our upgrades."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"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."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"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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