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 ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"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."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"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 easy to implement but requires good planning."
"It is considerably cheaper compared to other tools."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"It is scalable."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"Stability."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"This product could improve by adding cloud monitoring. I want SolarWinds NPM to do much more integration, and have more involvement in cloud monitoring, like AWS or Google, or Azure. I feel like it requires lots of improvement for cloud monitoring in NPM."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"It would be good to have high security."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
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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 146 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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