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We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence Report (Updated: March 2020).
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"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features.""Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles.""Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics.""MultiWAN and Balance service""You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product.""What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server.""It is easy to implement but requires good planning.""Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."

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"With the automation pieces we can bring this region up or take this region down, and it allows us to always meet our time critical requirements.""​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.​""The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional.""It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs.""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.""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.""The performance of it is beyond exceptional. It is probably one of the best products that I have ever worked with. It is easy to use, comprehensive, and can perform almost any task you need it to.""Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."

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Cons
"Stability.""We would like to see automatic network topology.""I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time.""The dashboards need to be improved.""CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth).""A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer.""We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators.""It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."

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"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.""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.""The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script.​""The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented.""One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky.""Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions.""The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."
  • "The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."
  • "The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."
  • "Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."
  • "CAD $400,000 annually."
  • "Customers pay for the license and the support."
  • "Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."
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    Top Answer:The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within… more »
    Top Answer:We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue. We would also like to see some enhancements in assignment… more »
    Top Answer:I primarily use DX UIM to capture performance data and faults.
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    DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager
    CA OPS MVS Event Management and Automation, CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation, Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation
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    Overview

    DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

    Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

    z/OS, its subsystems, databases, middleware, applications, and software generate thousands of event messages daily. IT professionals need a tool to filter, prioritize, and respond quickly to these events before they impact availability and threaten business processing and associated service level agreements. CA OPS/MVS EMA automates processes, enabling you to resolve problems as they arise. It also automates more routine tasks, simplifying IT management and operations.
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    CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company12%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Insurance Company11%
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    Manufacturing Company18%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Healthcare Company10%
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    Midsize Enterprise16%
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    Buyer's Guide
    DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence
    March 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and other solutions. Updated: March 2020.
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    DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 30th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 120 reviews while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". 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 Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, SCOM, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and DX Spectrum. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence report.

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