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 DX NetOps 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."
"My sales representative, I would not trade him in for the world. He has done a really good job. I am really happy with him."
"There is another component of the tool called Network Flow Analysis. It gives us the ability to troubleshoot issues which do not appear right away."
"The capability where not only the traditional SNMP information is captured but also the netflow data; who is consuming the data on the WAN, and voice-related information, is helpful. The voice quality makes it very easy for first- and second-line operators to see where the issue is, and who is impacted."
"It is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers."
"It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled."
"The ability to quickly do drag and drop customized reports for dashboards."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."
"We have been able to get a little bit better at seeing more things in real time and more just in time, so we're less reactionary."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Policies could be improved."
"I have mixed feeling about the scalability. I feel like there are things which are being put into UIM right now that are not being included in Performance Center that we need to see in Performance Center. We are kind of being driven to buy UIM, and I can't justify it."
"It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics."
"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."
"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."
"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"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 Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
DX Performance Management is ranked 2nd in DX NetOps with 31 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps 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 OmniPeek and SolarWinds AppOptics, 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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