We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and NetBrain based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Auvik, Wireshark and others in Network Troubleshooting."It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"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."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"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 Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"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."
"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."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"NetBrain is a very simple tool."
"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."
"Enables maps to be drawn out."
"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."
"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."
"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."
"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."
"It would be nice if the setup was a little simpler. Also, if the solution could provide more training materials for new people coming into our company so they can quickly learn how to use the functionalities."
"The solution could integrate more automation."
DX Spectrum is ranked 6th in Network Troubleshooting with 115 reviews while NetBrain is ranked 15th in Network Troubleshooting. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while NetBrain is rated 7.2. 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 NetBrain writes "Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas NetBrain is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager and ScienceLogic.
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