We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OpenText Network Node Manager i 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."I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The fault management is perfect."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"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."
"You can utilize the main file from various vendors for integration."
"It is stable for fault and availability."
"The platform has good stability."
"Real time network monitoring application: It is very stable, which provides quick root cause analysis (RCA) for any network faults."
"It's quite a mature solution."
"It gives us a good overview of what's happening in our networks and the devices in the networks."
"If you install one node on Network Node Manager and want to scale it up, it's pretty easy to create more nodes."
"A good enterprise-level solution."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"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 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."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"The way the solution currently works means I'm not able to customize my own reports."
"The dashboards are not customizable and it's not user-friendly."
"Right now, we have open tickets and they are not closing as expected."
"The solution should integrate with NAC servers."
"Reporting. Even though this is available in separate software (iSPI) there is potential in making the reporting more SLA-aware and more intuitive."
"The resources utilized could be a bit higher, and that is one of the challenges that isn't optimized"
"When I open a ticket, usually they respond very late. Some of the people I negotiate with seem undertrained."
"We had some issues with some of the features, some modules are not meeting expectations."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while OpenText Network Node Manager i is ranked 13th in Network Management Applications with 23 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OpenText Network Node Manager i is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Network Node Manager i writes "Easy-to-implement product with a valuable map topology feature". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Cisco DNA Center, whereas OpenText Network Node Manager i is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Cisco DNA Center, IBM Tivoli NetCool and Fortinet FortiManager. See our DX Spectrum vs. OpenText Network Node Manager i report.
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