"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."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"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 takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
DX Spectrum is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 14 reviews while Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 25th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 2 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Ixia Hawkeye is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Provides granular access control, highly scalable, and helpful for monitoring the entire network infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "Priced-well, easy to scale, stable, and straightforward to set up". DX Spectrum is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, DX NetOps, Zabbix, Zenoss Service Dynamics and Splunk, whereas Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with Gigamon, ThousandEyes, Auvik, Zabbix and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE. See our DX Spectrum vs. Ixia Hawkeye report.
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