We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence 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 plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"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."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"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."
"It's very secure, because it's a legacy application."
"Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."
"The follow-up surprised me. Making sure that I am happy with what I have gone to them on. They will call after I have made changes and verify that I am happy with the changes that I did have to make. If it did not fix the complete problem, they go back over it until I am satisfied."
"It's very flexible. You can customize what you need to, which is good. For example, you can do your own coding inside the tool, make your own scripting tooling."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up."
"It allows us to respond faster to issues. If there are issues that come out, we're able to capture a message and alert somebody about it."
"Their technical support is incredible, immediately responsive, and even if it is not updated to Level 2 support sometimes, they chip in providing more detailed answers and options to fix the problem."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"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 needs better documentation on its complex features."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. 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 OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM. See our DX Spectrum vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence report.
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