DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds ipMonitor comparison

"The value of UIM is that we are not only monitoring the infrastructure asset but also monitoring it as an IT service."

"Great out-of-the-box capability."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"This product is very flexible for the administrator; we can do whatever we want, and it is easily customizable and upgradable."

"With UIM, the one thing I've learned is there's hundreds of ways of doing it and they're all right."

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

"Technical Support: The UIM support team is excellent."

"UIM covered 95% of that."

"The initial setup is very straightforward and it is easy to add nodes."

"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."

"IPAM is used for IP address reservation and tracking, helping us easily identify live IP addresses."

"IPAM is used for IP address reservation and tracking, helping us easily identify live IP addresses."

"I would like to see them improve integrations with other CA products to use the data on dashboards and more widgets on UIM dashboards."

"If there was a way to better harvest information from other sources to configure the components, it would make it easier to do."

"In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues."

"Open source and acquired components are often bolted on and integrated poorly."

"Customer support is good, but sometimes needs bit of urgency from a CA engineer to look at the issue."

"The major problem we have when we sell CA UIM is that we need to sell additional products because it doesn't cover all the features."

"The UIM product is playing catch-up. They are not there yet to do a lot of the next-level things that we need them to do."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"The licensing cost is high compared to open source tools."

"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."

"The licensing cost is high compared to open source tools."

"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."

"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."

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

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

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

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"The solution is a bit expensive because the annual license does not include new features that are priced as add-ons."