We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"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."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"The integration point."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our DX Spectrum vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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