We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat map."
"The most valuable is the assistance for network support."
"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."
"What I found most beneficial from Cisco Prime is that it gives you an insight into what your network does, even when you're not actively monitoring what's going on with your network."
"The VLAN mapping function has been most impactful in simplifying our network management tasks."
"The endpoint information Cisco Prime generates helps us troubleshoot, and it's also useful for compliance reporting and endpoint identification."
"The dashboard is a valuable feature. It's very clear, and the metrics make it easy to see the current network situation."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"I want the tool to improve data visibility."
"It should be able to monitor Palo Alto, Juniper, and Check Point products - not just Cisco solutions."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."
"Cisco Prime needs to have lower prices and more customization options."
"The user interface of Cisco Prime could be more user-friendly and increase its performance."
"They could consider offering more flexible pricing options for their customers."
"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and ManageEngine Network Configuration Management, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Prime vs. DX Spectrum report.
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