We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and ExtremeCloud IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"What's most valuable for me in ExtremeCloud IQ is easy management. It also has centralized administration, so you don't have to go to the customer site to program it. It can be programmed remotely."
"The cloud-based management interface allows us to fully manage all our wireless radios, ensuring consistency and ease of access."
"Integrated Firewall in every AP (with DPI inspection) is a killer feature and it is included already in the price of licence (with others, this feature is an add-on licence)."
"The support organization behind this product is extremely professional."
"ExtremeCloud offers features that not a lot of other vendors do like their data storage and the ability to swap licenses."
"HiveManager is incredibly useful for managing APs and switches from one cloud interface."
"The feature that I like to most is unified management in a multitenant environment, where we can manage all our customers with thousands of devices (routers, switches, VPNs, and APs)."
"The cloud management gives us the tools and reports that we need to monitor and troubleshoot the network."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"The licensing model could be improved."
"Having a wizard for customers who are just starting might be helpful."
"The Virtual Appliance crashed once while doing an upgrade. The good thing here is, even if the management system fails, all our networks and features still remain 100% stable and working."
"Lacks cyber asset tracking."
"Browser load time for the cloud is long and needs improvement."
"From our perspective, we would love to see Aerohive provide faster feature enhancement in their Virtual Appliance to match the features with the cloud solution more quickly."
"They can improve just the onboarding process. More user information about the introduction to the product would be helpful. It would be good if they have a better user introduction to the new product because it is different than the prior version."
"I would like to see more security features such as NAC integrated to the solution. This would allow customers to be able to control all other users under one dashboard."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while ExtremeCloud IQ is ranked 5th in Network Management Applications with 73 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while ExtremeCloud IQ is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ExtremeCloud IQ writes "Robust stability for maximizing network efficiency and security". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas ExtremeCloud IQ is most compared with Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN, Ubiquiti Wireless, Mist AI and Cloud, Aruba Wireless and Cisco DNA Center. See our DX Spectrum vs. ExtremeCloud IQ report.
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