We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Meraki Dashboard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"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."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It's a scalable solution."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"It's really user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"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."
"Price could be reduced."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"The solution can be expensive."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. 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 Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Zabbix. See our DX Spectrum vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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