We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"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."
"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."
"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The documentation is very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see auditability. We've built our own audit functionality to ensure that every CI has the desired model configuration applied to it. And we run that on a daily basis. If that became part of the product, I think it might be a little bit less intensive in terms of resource, because we're doing it with scripts."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."
"The company has not kept pace with developments."
"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"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."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"The pricing for this solution has gone up quite recently, which has led some of our customers to buy an alternative product."
"The new release cadence needs to be improved. It takes a while for them to add new features and functionality. There should be a quicker turnaround with new versions."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 38th in Network Monitoring Software with 120 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 41st in Network Monitoring Software with 21 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager and Amazon CloudWatch, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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