"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."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"The most helpful feature of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is bandwidth analysis, which lets you see who's hogging your network."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The integration with third-party tools and the alerts are most valuable."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"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."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"The pricing is expensive."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
"Look and feel."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
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