DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs GroundWork Monitor comparison

"We are able to configure alert by client requirements and can see those alert with a lot of detail."

"The ability to monitor any platform; we have Windows, Linux, AIX, and mainframe all being monitored with the same UIM infrastructure."

"It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network."

"One of the most valuable features would be the out-of-the-box capability; it's extremely capable from day one, not a lot of customization is required in order to implement it within your environment, and I think that's just a huge resource win from a time-measurement perspective."

"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."

"Having all of our information within one tool set; our alerts, our monitors, and the things that our operations team needs to function."

"It has provided greater security for our most important asset which is the handling of information."

"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."

"It's easy to setup and the plugins are easy to write."

"With the increased amount of data it has to collect, a different approach to data storage would be nice, perhaps something similar to a NoSQL instead of a relational method."

"The reporting part could be improved."

"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."

"Overall, I’d say they’re fairly good. I think when compared to a couple of years ago, support has gone down a bit rather than up."

"It needs more report capabilities; things that make it easier to find them. It needs a central, global, point of view for inventory."

"Very complex, little documentation and NMS is more of a middleware to build your own monitoring on top of, rather than an end-to-end system."

"The company has not kept pace with developments."

"Its integration to CA's SOI (manager of manager), the out of the box connector release by CA is disappointing."

"Deploying an agent leaves much to be desired."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."