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 IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The fault management is perfect."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."
"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"Great out-of-the-box capability."
"DX UIM is scalable."
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"Probe packages and probe deployment."
"The ability to monitor any platform. We have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"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."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"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."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"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."
"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."
"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 16th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 115 reviews while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 31st in IT Infrastructure Monitoring 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 IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, whereas DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, SCOM, ManageEngine OpManager, Nagios XI and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our DX Spectrum vs. DX Unified Infrastructure Management report.
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