We performed a comparison between Citrix ADM and DX Spectrum 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."We like the periodic upgrades and backups, also made via ADMs, and it makes our environment much more robust and reliable."
"Content filtering, security layer, and application customization features are the most valuable."
"Available on any device and can be accessed on a wide area network."
"We use the product for load balancing and as a reverse proxy solution."
"The most valuable features are for the ADMs and the overall monitoring environment."
"The analytics are a great feature."
"The most impressive thing about Citrix ADM is that we don't encounter latency."
"An essential component is the Director, which provides detailed insights into sessions, including identifying session failures, connection issues, user lockouts, etc. It presents a list of problems to address, enabling you to click on them and resolve them efficiently."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"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."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"I would like to see the virtual and desktop license included in the pricing."
"They need to make the solution a little more familiar with easy study guides, learning videos, etc."
"Deployment is complicated."
"When a new version comes out, sometimes, my existing configuration gets wiped out. They should work on this so that my existing configuration doesn't get impacted with an upgrade to a newer version. There could also reduce frequent firmware upgrade activities and have a stable version so that once we upgrade it, we don't have to upgrade it for two to three years."
"Citrix is more expensive than Horizon."
"Some features of Citrix ADM are available on the cloud, which could really be helpful if they were available on an on-premise version."
"Citrix ADM needs to improve on its additional features and reduce the communication ports."
"The interface could be improved, some customers struggle with that."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
Citrix ADM is ranked 9th in Network Management Applications with 9 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Citrix ADM is rated 8.4, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix ADM writes "A tool for centralized management including inventory and sales tracking". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Citrix ADM is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and DataMiner, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Citrix ADM vs. DX Spectrum report.
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