We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OpenText Network Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"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."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"When compared with SolarWinds, it is more user-friendly, and tasks can be completed more quickly."
"Pushing the network configuration to bulk devices. This saves a considerable amount of time that the engineer spends in pushing the network configuration."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Compatibility of the devices needs to be enhanced, as it seems to be limited."
"Level one administration task can be defined in Micro Focus Network Automation but it could be more simplified."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while OpenText Network Automation is ranked 12th in Network Automation. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OpenText Network Automation is rated 7.2. 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 OpenText Network Automation writes "Helps the configuration backup be validated before and after any change in the network infrastructure". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas OpenText Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, BackBox, NetBrain and BMC TrueSight Network Automation.
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