"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"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."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"Enables maps to be drawn out."
"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."
"NetBrain is a very simple tool."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"The solution could integrate more automation."
"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."
"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."
DX Spectrum is ranked 2nd in Network Troubleshooting with 14 reviews while NetBrain is ranked 8th in Network Troubleshooting with 3 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while NetBrain is rated 7.0. 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 NetBrain writes "Some inconsistencies which have improved recently; ability to draw out maps is a big time saver ". DX Spectrum is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, DX NetOps, Zabbix, Zenoss Service Dynamics and Infoblox NetMRI, whereas NetBrain is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ThousandEyes and PRTG Network Monitor. See our DX Spectrum vs. NetBrain report.
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