DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds Network Automation Manager comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds Network Automation Manager compete in the network and infrastructure management domain. Feedback suggests DX Unified Infrastructure Management may have an advantage with better pricing and support, while SolarWinds Network Automation Manager offers extensive features that enhance its value.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers monitoring capabilities, scalability, and integration with third-party tools. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager provides network configuration, change management, and automation of repetitive tasks.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could enhance its reporting features, user interface, and simplify its automation processes. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager could improve its pricing model, enhance integration capabilities, and streamline its initial setup as part of its deployment process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers streamlined deployment with comprehensive support resources. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager, while more complex to deploy, provides excellent guided support to enhance customer satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is noted for competitive pricing with a promising ROI by reducing costs and improving efficiency. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager, with a higher initial cost, justifies the expense with substantial long-term ROI due to advanced automation capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

76th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (23rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (54th), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th), AIOps (24th)

SolarWinds Network Automati...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

106th

Average Rating

5.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Automation (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is 0.1%, up from 0.1% 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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Giulio Valeri

Owner at SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS SRL

Threat detection failures, poor technical support, and expensive

We use the solution to manage all of our customer's systems. We monitor and decide if everything is okay and if not, we do changes when needed. For example, if there is a need to change the antivirus software we can automate the process and install the new one. There are scripts within the software…

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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

"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."

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

"What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server."

"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."

"It is very scalable."

"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 is reliable when it comes to monitoring."

"Another division handed us the opportunity to monitor their solutions as written, and UIM was very useful for that."

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"The installation is easy."

"The solution offers so many great resources, it makes them a powerhouse in the market."

Cons

"Customers have expressed that support is not as flexible, and it is difficult to obtain necessary information quickly."

"There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want."

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."

"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."

"They need to continue to advance the filter capabilities, and provide more input fields."

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

"We would like to see automatic network topology."

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"We did not like SolarWinds because it was not able to communicate between UPSA and our accounting system. They should have better integration."

"The price could be a bit lower."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

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

"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."

"The price of SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is fair. However, it is more expensive than ConnectWise."

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

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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.

Broadcom

Scale environments from 1,000 to tens of thousands of nodes with comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration management, and IP address management in an integrated network automation software solution.

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Sample Customers

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

Maalem Financing Company, School City of Hammond

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