We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and DX Performance 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."
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"It offers automation, security enforcement, analytics, and integration with other Cisco technologies, making it a key driver for efficient network operations and compliance with security protocols."
"The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"Cisco VXLAN is a protocol that has been around for some time, but the practical implementation and operational capability of Cisco DNA Center bring it to life."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."
"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"Downloads and records are the most valuable features."
"You can create intelligent alerts so you have enough time to replace the router or interface before it's full. The same is applicable for CBQoS channels."
"The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page."
"The tool helps us understand network performance."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"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 tool's deployment is complex. It also needs to improve its GUI."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"The solution's integration feature can be better."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"This may be available by now but for server space, when it comes to the disk file system, I'd like to see that graphically represented, or the trend, rather than what I'm seeing now."
"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."
"DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary data center. It's crucial to maintain consistent monitoring of the devices during this transition. Therefore, I require continuous, 24/7 monitoring of my system using this tool."
"Since we are out of registered IP space, we are moving to ipv6 and we expect our vendors to move with us, and they have not delivered yet."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"The solution could improve the database model. It is also not very good because they have a lot of interconnections with other data sources, such as NFA and VNA."
"It needs role-based administration."
"It seems like we escalate more than I would like to. If anything, they should look at how the tier support goes in place."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 37 reviews while DX Performance Management is ranked 37th in Network Monitoring Software with 31 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while DX Performance Management is rated 8.2. 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 Performance Management writes "The vertical database loads faster than any other product available". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas DX Performance Management is most compared with DX Spectrum and OmniPeek. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. DX Performance Management report.
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