"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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 fault management is perfect."
"The most valuable feature is the event management capability."
"It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions. A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
Earn 20 points
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 14 reviews while IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is ranked 5th in Event Monitoring with 2 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.0, while IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Good monitoring, alerting capabilities, and improved visibility, but AIOps is restricted to Broadcom". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus writes "It is customer-centric and has support for multi-layered protocols, but it needs better integration and GUI". DX Spectrum is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, DX NetOps, Zabbix, Zenoss Service Dynamics and NetBrain, whereas IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is most compared with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, BigPanda, ScienceLogic, SCOM and Micro Focus Operations Manager.
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