We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OpenText Network Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"Pushing the network configuration to bulk devices. This saves a considerable amount of time that the engineer spends in pushing the network configuration."
"When compared with SolarWinds, it is more user-friendly, and tasks can be completed more quickly."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"Level one administration task can be defined in Micro Focus Network Automation but it could be more simplified."
"Compatibility of the devices needs to be enhanced, as it seems to be limited."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while OpenText Network Automation is ranked 12th in Network Automation. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OpenText Network Automation is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Network Automation writes "Helps the configuration backup be validated before and after any change in the network infrastructure". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas OpenText Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, BackBox, NetBrain and BMC TrueSight Network Automation.
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