We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"It's user-friendly."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"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."
"This is a relatively expensive product."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is ranked 16th in Network Management Applications with 1 review. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is rated 9.0. 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 SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper writes "Very user-friendly and stable". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Cisco DNA Center, Aruba Airwave and Huawei eSight.
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