We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"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 does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"It's user-friendly."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"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."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"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."
"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."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"This is a relatively expensive product."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is ranked 16th in Network Management Applications with 1 review. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is rated 9.0. 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 SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper writes "Very user-friendly and stable". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Cisco DNA Center, Aruba Airwave and Huawei eSight.
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