We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The integration point."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"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."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server."
"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"It is easy to implement."
"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."
"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"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."
"Stability."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"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."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 37th in Network Monitoring Software with 120 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2. 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 DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and LogicMonitor, whereas DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Zabbix. See our DX Spectrum vs. DX Unified Infrastructure Management report.
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