We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager 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."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"Automation of the ILS."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The product has excellent stability."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The integration point."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"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 platform is complicated to use."
"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."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"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."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 19 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and SolarWinds NPM, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. DX Spectrum report.
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