We performed a comparison between Citrix ADM 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 impressive thing about Citrix ADM is that we don't encounter latency."
"We use the product for load balancing and as a reverse proxy solution."
"An essential component is the Director, which provides detailed insights into sessions, including identifying session failures, connection issues, user lockouts, etc. It presents a list of problems to address, enabling you to click on them and resolve them efficiently."
"Just one solution can handle thousands of users... So, it is a very convenient tool to use."
"The most valuable features are for the ADMs and the overall monitoring environment."
"Available on any device and can be accessed on a wide area network."
"Content filtering, security layer, and application customization features are the most valuable."
"We like the periodic upgrades and backups, also made via ADMs, and it makes our environment much more robust and reliable."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"I would like to see the virtual and desktop license included in the pricing."
"Citrix is more expensive than Horizon."
"Some features of Citrix ADM are available on the cloud, which could really be helpful if they were available on an on-premise version."
"The interface could be improved, some customers struggle with that."
"They need to make the solution a little more familiar with easy study guides, learning videos, etc."
"Deployment is complicated."
"The tool's pricing is a pain point since we have many cheaper alternatives."
"When a new version comes out, sometimes, my existing configuration gets wiped out. They should work on this so that my existing configuration doesn't get impacted with an upgrade to a newer version. There could also reduce frequent firmware upgrade activities and have a stable version so that once we upgrade it, we don't have to upgrade it for two to three years."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
Citrix ADM is ranked 9th in Network Management Applications with 9 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews. Citrix ADM is rated 8.4, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix ADM writes "A tool for centralized management including inventory and sales tracking". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Citrix ADM is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and DataMiner, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our Citrix ADM vs. DX Spectrum report.
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