We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime and DX Spectrum 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 technical support team is very good."
"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."
"The endpoint information Cisco Prime generates helps us troubleshoot, and it's also useful for compliance reporting and endpoint identification."
"We use this solution to troubleshoot our wireless systems, specifically regarding signal strength."
"Cisco Prime is user-friendly, so we are comfortable using it."
"Cisco Prime has been around for a long time, and it keeps getting better and better."
"Cisco Prime allows us to manage all the wireless controllers and access points."
"We use the solution to control the physical service station that is part of the SCADA network. We connect and control them remotely."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The integration point."
"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."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"I would love for Cisco Prime to show bandwidth usage and consumption, but I can't monitor bandwidth usage at a given time."
"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."
"I rate Cisco Prime seven out of 10 for affordability. All Cisco solutions are expensive."
"They could consider offering more flexible pricing options for their customers."
"If you think about a centralized monitoring system, Cisco Prime is not good because it does not support third-party vendors like Palo Alto or FortiGate."
"Cisco needs to improve Prime's monitoring tab. If any device goes down, there is a 15-second lapse before we know. It would be much better if we were alerted two or three minutes before a device is about to fail, so we can dispatch a field engineer and avoid network downtime. I would like to see a feature that allows you to access the devices directly from Prime's monitoring tab. That would make work easier for us."
"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."
"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"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 solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"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."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 5th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and ManageEngine Network Configuration Management, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Prime vs. DX Spectrum report.
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