We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"Application Assurance works very well."
"We can monitor all devices and get the required information using the product."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it gives some kind of ease in operations, especially since our company is moving from CLI to GUI-based configuration."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"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."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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 helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"The tool's IoT integration should be better."
"There should be an option for automation of template deployment by using the stored data. It is not easy to save configuration information for lots of devices without using other tools. There should be a tighter, better repository of information that can be merged with the templates."
"The solution can be quite pricey."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"They should include UTM features in the product."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"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."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
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Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our Cisco DNA Center vs. DX Spectrum report.
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