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DX Performance Management pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.1 out of 5

32 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

DX Performance Management integrates with multiple tools to streamline data consolidation, reducing outages by proactively identifying issues while offering data visualization and reporting. Though scalable for carrier-grade services, challenges remain with Business Hours Filtering and IP SLA data. Customer service is well-regarded, yet the upgrade process is complex, and Performance Center lacks features, prompting UIM purchase. Issues with database interconnections and limited certifications for device deployment further complicate its deployment.

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PROS

DX Performance Management integrates with NetFlow and NFA for effective flow forensics and SNMP polling on a single platform.

The implementation of DX Performance Management has significantly reduced outages by about 60% and provides real-time data.

DX Performance Management is designed for carrier-grade services, supporting multi-tenancy and scalability, making it suitable for handling a large number of devices and interfaces.

Certified device metrics are factory-loaded in DX Performance Management, eliminating the need for custom files, which ensures easy deployment and data accuracy.

DX Performance Management offers robust data collection capabilities and seamless integration with other systems, plus it is highly scalable and efficient for network performance management.

CONS

DX Performance Management faces challenges with report sorting flexibility, making it difficult to customize reports based on metric columns.

The upgrade process requires a backup, creating difficulties in converting large data sets.

Global synchronization errors occur, leading to incomplete processes under heavy load conditions.

Current business hours filtering in DX Performance Management does not work consistently, affecting report accuracy for specific times.

Security concerns arise due to installations performed as root, along with unstated database IO requirements leading to instability.

DX Performance Management Pros review quotes

Manager Network Operations at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center.

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Supervisor Of Event Management And Monitoring at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on.

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Network Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 23, 2018

The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive.

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Senior Consultant at Computacenter

Nov 13, 2018

The capability where not only the traditional SNMP information is captured but also the netflow data; who is consuming the data on the WAN, and voice-related information, is helpful. The voice quality makes it very easy for first- and second-line operators to see where the issue is, and who is impacted.

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Infrastructure Services Engineer Sr, Enterprise Network at a insurance company

Oct 24, 2017

The integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass.

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Senior Systems Engineer at FMR

Jan 31, 2018

It is very easy to add devices; just be aware that it requires SNMP to be enabled.

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Team Lead-IT service Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 28, 2022

The most valuable feature of DX Performance Management is the quick way we can collect data without putting much effort. They have a lot of customization and features with the solution internally and out of the box. We can discover the device, and start collecting information. For example, if the device is available, we can receive the CPU and memory utilization, and the interface optimization is simple and very fast to implement.

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Senior IT Specialist at Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka, a. s.

Feb 25, 2023

It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices.

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Jeremiah Dinardo

Network Engineer at Wells Fargo

Nov 26, 2017

The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page.

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Senior Lifecycle Operations Engineer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 27, 2023

What is most useful is visibility.

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DX Performance Management Cons review quotes

Manager Network Operations at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 26, 2017

I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part.

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Supervisor Of Event Management And Monitoring at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now.

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Network Specialist at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 23, 2018

This may be available by now but for server space, when it comes to the disk file system, I'd like to see that graphically represented, or the trend, rather than what I'm seeing now.

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Senior Consultant at Computacenter

Nov 13, 2018

It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics.

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Infrastructure Services Engineer Sr, Enterprise Network at a insurance company

Oct 24, 2017

Some of the individual report views, the way some of the columns sort, there's room for improvement in giving us more flexibility in being able to sort reports based, for example, on what columns the metrics fall under.

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Senior Systems Engineer at FMR

Jan 31, 2018

It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers.

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Team Lead-IT service Management at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 28, 2022

The solution could improve the database model. It is also not very good because they have a lot of interconnections with other data sources, such as NFA and VNA.

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Senior IT Specialist at Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka, a. s.

Feb 25, 2023

I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability.

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Jeremiah Dinardo

Network Engineer at Wells Fargo

Nov 26, 2017

Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load.

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Senior Lifecycle Operations Engineer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 27, 2023

Even though we can see when something is not available, it would also be it would be nice if some sort of alerting took place to that you could know immediately if something went down.

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