The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products. It is not a structured database like normal SQL servers. 

What is most useful is visibility. We can see what is being utilized on the network the most. Sometimes we might have some sort of performance issues, and then we want to see who is the bad actor in that particular location that's using up all of the services from everyone else. 

At that point, we're able to see exactly what device it is, what services are running, and possibly reschedule services to work at a time when it's less impactful to everyone else.

It is stable.

The solution can scale. 

Performance monitoring is a system that provides very standard basic functions, namely the measurement of the performance of various elements and their components.

Therefore, the performance management software must correctly display the list of monitored objects, including their components, have ergonomic dashboards that completely display the status of individual devices, and also be able to generate various complex reports that make it possible to see the status of the network in an integrated way and effectively search for possible problems. It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices. It is easily configurable and adjustable.

DX Performance Monitoring does everything listed perfectly.

Downloads and records are the most valuable features. Thresholding is also very valuable for us, and from my point of view, the solution offers a lot of possibilities for reporting. This is very nice and useful. Data aggregation is also a very useful thing. I can prepare the report very fast, and I can prepare one report for a lot of technologies.

The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page. Everybody throws around single pane of glass, but this is really the benefit that we see from it. Have it being able to have everything there in one application UI. 

The benefit is having the one-stop shop where we can integrate all of our CA products into one dashboard. They can use that one dashboard as a portal to click around to wherever they need to go. The dashboard integrates our data from Spectrum and CA PC, like the data collectors.

The out-of-the-box dashboards, in terms of being able to visualize performance data in ways that we haven't in the past. As opposed to lines of threshold alerts or indications of degradation, we're seeing from a graphical perspective this information that's coming in, and visualizing it in a way that helps us to make better decisions.

It's a pretty complex product. There are a lot of parts to it.

The biggest selling point is putting the power of creating dashboards and reports into end users' hands. They can create views that are most pertinent to them. That's been the big one for us, and one of the reasons why we went with the product.

Dashboards are the most valuable feature of this product as well as integration with other solutions. It helps with issues in the network and replacing devices. 

It allows us to have a quick, upfront view of our multiple data centers. We have multiple connections to hundreds of customers; and it provides us with a quick dashboard look at issues we might be having; bottlenecks we might be having; and things that might go wrong in our network without us needing to dig through endless screens of issues to get to the root of the problem.

The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement.

Probably the most valuable feature is the integration that the tool provides for us. We're able to present data from multiple back-end collection sources into a single dashboard for the users. So they don't have to go to multiple locations to get data about a particular item, or device.

Its ability to probe the POLAR Network and tell us about a device. That is the most valuable. It is important we are able to alert based on what we find. It has become useful, because we can interact it with another tool, like Splunk, to actually do other parts of alerting.

For us, the multi-tenancy is very important, of course. 

The scalability is also important because we have customers in the system with only a small number of devices, say, 50, but we also have customers with more than 10,000 devices. The scalability is very good, amazing.

There have been a lot of changes which were very good in the last few years of development. One of them is that they brought together Spectrum and the performance data, since Performance Management 3.6. They also have the alarm information in Performance Center which is very helpful to have in one tool.

The ability to quickly do drag and drop customized reports for dashboards.

The integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass, for performance. CAPC is good for developing reports around those multiple data sources and giving us a single vision on what's going on in our environment.

CA PM is the single pane of glass, providing consolidated views for all of the CA tool sets, for viewing all reports.

The most valuable features to date are the alerts, reports, and integration with other CA products:

• The alerting feature allows us to quickly identify and begin remediation on network devices that are experiencing performance/capacity issues.
• The reporting feature has allowed us to quickly share information with customers, keeping them up to date on critical devices that are being monitored.
• The integration aspect is also important, as it allows us to feed inventory to the system from tools designed to walk our networks, and also pull in flow data for additional troubleshooting in one place.

The tool helps us understand network performance. 

It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled.

It is very easy to use because most of the administrative tasks through the UI are documented. If I have any doubt, I can just go to the CS support. In the UI itself, you have a lot of helpful information on each administrative task, such as adding a special profile, conferring the vendors' specifications.

The documentation is very good, they have the documents up to date.

• Multi-tenant platform
• User-configurable roles & permissions with granularity
• Dashboard-oriented
• Easy enough to customize

The most valuable feature to us is that it provides us with NetFlow data, which is essential to our business.

The metrics that it's able to track and that it's able to trend,

Keep in mind, because we have not updated, it's to the point where I've got to build a complete separate system with the latest version, and then map over all the users and customization, etc, then swap IPs to bring the previous system down so that we'll be on the latest. There are about two years worth of updates that I'm missing out on at the moment. I'm hoping that there are a lot of updates and nice, new features that have been added. So, really, I've been in the dark ages as far as running for a while now, but the feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice.

One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices. This solution is very functional, but it's not suitable for medium and small customers, which is the case in most of the markets in Europe. There are a few huge customers, but most of them are taken directly by the provider.

One of the most valuable features is the ease of use. 

• Dashboards - They look nice and fancy and are pretty impressive.
• Alerting - This helps the admin save time.

It's not only interesting to know if routers and switches are up or down at the moment, but also when a specific interface is filled to the max. You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels.

It is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers. Also, a multi-tendency insight, SCN, and Cisco ACI implementation, which we need very urgently.

Historical data, to help with trending and capacity planning.

The dashboards are easy to use and can be viewed on any web browser.

The auto-certification is valuable to us. It reduces the time consumed to certify a new device, as in the past with CA eHealth.

It is easy to use, and the performance metrics are helping us to know our network better.

The most valuable of CA Performance Management is consolidated network infrastructure monitoring and reporting.