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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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"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions""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 the topology.""Probe packages and probe deployment.""The benefit is easy installation. Thus, the model approach of the product and out-of-the-box probes, which deliver direct value.""It is easy to implement.""You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it.""I recall the initial setup being straightforward.""Great out-of-the-box capability."

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"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.""If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up.""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 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.""It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome.""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.""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.""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."

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"​We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard.""Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful.""It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console.""We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level.""The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned.""It is a little complex to use versus other softwares.""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.""We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."

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"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into.""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 GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that.""​It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process.​""Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions.""The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script.​""Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age.""Some of the command sequences are too long."

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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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    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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    Financial Services Firm57%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
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    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
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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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