DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs OP5 Monitor comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and OP5 Monitor are competing in the IT infrastructure management space. OP5 Monitor holds a slight edge due to its comprehensive feature set that justifies its cost, while DX Unified Infrastructure Management is favored for pricing and support.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers extensive monitoring capabilities across diverse environments, provides real-time visibility, and is known for its effective alerts and notifications. OP5 Monitor is recognized for highly customizable dashboards, strong integration capabilities, and advanced analytics features.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could enhance its integration flexibility, streamline its user interface, and expand customization options. OP5 Monitor might benefit from reduced deployment complexity, improved scalability for larger infrastructures, and more competitive initial pricing models.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides a straightforward deployment model with efficient customer support, making it simple for users. OP5 Monitor, with a slightly more complex deployment, offers personalized support, ensuring user needs are met effectively.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is generally more cost-effective with a quicker ROI due to its competitive pricing. OP5 Monitor, while involving higher initial setup costs, delivers robust ROI over time because of its advanced functionalities.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

54th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (23rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th), AIOps (25th)

OP5 Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

72nd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

53rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.5%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OP5 Monitor is 0.7%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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Harish Venkateshappa

Information Technology Staff at GlobalFoundries

Useful online resources, customizable, and highly effective monitoring

The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users. If there are corrupt files the data can be extracted from them. Anyone who wants to see the performance of memory usage, such as whether it's at 80 to 90 percent, can use this tool. However, other tools can provide this information in two minutes, this tool is more time-consuming and the report it provides is not very effective for practical use. When it comes to reports, the tool falls short. During a recent call, it was noted that while the company has distributed servers across the globe, only the master server can accommodate the reports and events, causing delays. If other servers experience issues, the team cannot view the reporting or tag things, such as for troubleshooting purposes. If this aspect was improved it would be an excellent tool.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"You can integrate clouds, hybrid infrastructure, and on-premise infrastructure into one product."

"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."

"Monitoring infrastructure and business applications are the most valuable features."

"Probe packages and probe deployment."

"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."

"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."

"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."

"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."

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"We can also observe whatever we want, and there are no limitations."

"With limited hardware or a virtual machine, you can address a huge network, hundreds of thousands of elements that need to be monitored. Other commercial software is not on that level."

"The API makes it pretty easy to integrate with any system."

"OP5 Monitor is a great choice due to its being built on an open-source monitoring tool and provides ample opportunity for customization based on specific support requirements. It is also user-friendly and easy to manage with a wide range of plugins available for use. In comparison to other enterprise tools, such as Micro Focus, OP5 Monitor stands out for its features and cost-effectiveness, making it the best tool in the market. Customization is one of the key strengths of the tool and provides a lot of capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to find support and plugins for the tool through online resources."

"It monitors and continuously tests everything that is of importance to you and your users. It could be everything from monitoring disk space to CPU usage to memory. It could include determining if the response time in your e-commerce platform is quick enough, or whether you have too many bounces from some of the pages on your website. You want to monitor anything that could cost you money or time or resources. You can do that with this system. It's very flexible."

"The best feature is that it is very relatable, stable, and scalable. The logger is a part of the software, but it's not the most important point of it."

Cons

"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."

"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."

"I'm very happy with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, but what could be improved is its user interface because currently, it has many wide spaces. All the information you need is in DX Unified Infrastructure Management, and it's a reliable tool, and though that's more important than the gaps in the user interface being smaller or wider, those gaps still need some improvement. I know the team is working on it. My company had some backend problems with DX Unified Infrastructure Management in the past that have now been solved. The setup for the tool also needs improvement because it's complex. Another room for improvement in DX Unified Infrastructure Management is its technical support because it's sometimes not as knowledgeable or responsive. What I'm suggesting to be added to the tool is an open-standard ELK Elastic-based database where you can put in all data, so that you can use the data in other systems as well."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."

"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."

"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."

"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."

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"They need to improve the dashboard interface."

"We do not get performance reports properly."

"IT environments today are in constant flux. This is driven by the newer cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker, etc. The whole Nagios-based monitoring system that OP5 is created on top of, is based on a host-service model. There is a need for a strategy on what to do with more dynamic environments. There is some cool stuff going on in that direction."

"The solution is useful for tweaking. However, there have been some negative experiences, such as limited report capabilities. The only report available is in PDF format, making it difficult for teams managing multiple servers to extract data in Excel format. The speaker recommends that the team improve the report capabilities to better serve users."

"OP5 lacks some visualization, a feature that makes some other products nice. Op5 is built for purpose, which is fine, but if you compare it with some new products, the visualization is not so appealing, especially for management... If you don't need fancy visualizations, OP5 is fine."

"The user interface is not what we are used to these days, and should be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

"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."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The cost of the license and support are separate. If you want platinum call support, it will cost more than a regular call. I did not opt for it, as it is an additional cost."

"It was not expensive. And because it's less demanding in terms of hardware, you don't have to pay for another SQL or other database license, and you can have a huge installation on one machine..."

"OP5 has a very low price as a solution, compared to many other solutions out there."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Government

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Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

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OP5 Monitor - The Complete Monitoring Solution

OP5 Monitor is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring solution for all sizes of environments. Use just one product to monitor your IT environment regardless of location, whether on-premise, in dynamic environments, public cloud or a hybrid of these.

Digital transformation adds extra layers and complexity to the IT estate by creating a hybrid IT environment of both static and dynamic environments, that can be difficult to monitor efficiently. ITRS OP5 Monitor gives enterprises full visibility over their entire IT estate through a single pane of glass, allowing them to consolidate monitoring tools and cut down costs.

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Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

Svenska Spel, Carus, VGL, Tele2, Viking Line, Clas Ohlson, Vanderlande, Försäkringskassan

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