We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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 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."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"Automation of the ILS."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"The product has excellent stability."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"It is easy to implement."
"Technical support is great."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."
"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"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."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned."
"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."
"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."
"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 38th in Network Monitoring Software with 120 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2. 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 Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, SCOM, DX Spectrum, ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. DX Unified Infrastructure Management report.
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