We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two DX NetOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."
"OPS/REXX is valuable because it allows us almost unlimited flexibility in automating our system."
"Once automatic IPL has been defined, anyone can perform an IPL with very little intervention. We know that all of the components will be started correctly."
"With the automation pieces we can bring this region up or take this region down, and it allows us to always meet our time critical requirements."
"I do not have to keep recordings. It is there and is proactive. It helps the operators, human editors, and me."
"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."
"It is an easy product to use and it is stable."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"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."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"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."
"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."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4. 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 OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and SCOM. See our DX Spectrum vs. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence report.
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