We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network 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 solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"The out-of-the-box dashboards are valuable, in terms of being able to visualize performance data in ways that we haven't in the past."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."
"When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"Even though we can see when something is not available, it would also be it would be nice if some sort of alerting took place to that you could know immediately if something went down."
"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary data center. It's crucial to maintain consistent monitoring of the devices during this transition. Therefore, I require continuous, 24/7 monitoring of my system using this tool."
"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."
"When it goes through discovery, or whatever it is doing in the back-end that slows it down, sometimes we get some failures with it. "
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
DX Performance Management is ranked 36th in Network Monitoring Software with 31 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. DX Performance Management is rated 8.2, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DX Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". DX Performance Management is most compared with Zabbix and OmniPeek, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and OpenText Network Node Manager i. See our DX Performance Management vs. DX Spectrum report.
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