We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco Prime is helpful as it provides us with real-time monitoring. This allows us to be proactive in our environment."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat map."
"The solution helps with the management and support of the enterprise network."
"The interfaces are a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."
"Cisco Prime has been around for a long time, and it keeps getting better and better."
"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."
"The VLAN mapping function has been most impactful in simplifying our network management tasks."
"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."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"They can also improve the management of more enterprise devices."
"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."
"The solution has issues with real time monitoring of devices and NetFlow such as inadequate visualization for reports, sources, and destinations."
"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."
"The reporting could be simplified and the information made clearer to the user."
"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."
"Some improvements are needed, specifically in the form of more updates and enhancements."
"The solution needs to include centralized management that aligns with the Greenfield network and its focus on real-time, scenario-based applications."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"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."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 34 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and Junos Space Network Director, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our Cisco Prime vs. DX Spectrum report.
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