We performed a comparison between DX Performance Management and DX Spectrum 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."
"There is a good amount of vendor certification which comes with the product. That's all factory-loaded, no need to load any custom-made files. Most of the metrics are calibrated and captured from the devices based on the defaults available from vendor certification."
"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."
"My sales representative, I would not trade him in for the world. He has done a really good job. I am really happy with him."
"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."
"Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on."
"It gave us one location, one place to do all of group administration, and to build dashboards, and device administration, inventory counts... it really reduced our overall administrative overhead."
"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"It is easy to navigate."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"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 Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I have mixed feeling about the scalability. I feel like there are things which are being put into UIM right now that are not being included in Performance Center that we need to see in Performance Center. We are kind of being driven to buy UIM, and I can't justify it."
"Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"It needs role-based administration."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"CA PM can be complex to build and configure. Creating the folders / groups / sites required establishing many rule sets."
"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."
"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."
"It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"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."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
DX Performance Management is ranked 37th in Network Monitoring Software with 31 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. DX Performance Management is rated 8.2, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DX Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". DX Performance Management is most compared with OmniPeek, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and OpenText Network Node Manager i. See our DX Performance Management vs. DX Spectrum report.
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