DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Broadcom and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Server Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2, while SolarWinds is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.3. Broadcom holds a 1.2% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor are leading solutions in IT infrastructure monitoring. SolarWinds seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and performance metrics.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers extensive integration capabilities, scalability, and effective functionality. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides in-depth performance monitoring, detailed metrics, and a broad array of features for complex infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management could benefit from a more straightforward configuration process, enhanced reporting capabilities, and better user experience. SolarWinds users seek improvements in the initial learning curve, customized alert management, and user interface simplicity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is known for its smooth deployment and reliable customer support. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, while having positive feedback for deployment, can be time-intensive due to its feature set. SolarWinds customer service is acknowledged for swift and helpful responses.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is favored for reasonable setup costs and satisfactory ROI. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, despite higher costs, delivers a higher ROI justified by its superior performance and features.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (34th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (28th), Cloud Monitoring Software (24th), AIOps (11th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (24th), Active Directory Management (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 4.9%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Arunpandiyan M

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support

There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.

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Subhajit Nag

Senior Process Associate at Tata Consultancy Services

The component and cable monitoring features are good, but the interface is slow

SolarWinds' interface is slow, and this is a global concern. Every SolarWinds user complains about the sluggishness. The response is slow. If you browse from one page to another, you have to wait. Our company is a massive user with plenty of licenses, so the performance issues could be due to the load per license. Ten thousand components can be mapped under one license. So SolarWinds needs to take care of the speed problem. It cannot be this slow. That is a huge complaint. Otherwise, the tool is good. It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle. The upgrade time matters because you only install the solution once, but you'll need to upgrade the solution repeatedly over the life of the product. A complex installation isn't an issue, but I mind if the upgrade takes too long because it's already in production.

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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

"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."

"Probe packages and probe deployment."

"DX UIM is scalable."

"Scalability and flexibility. The product can grow with your infrastructure so you don't have to install other products. Just add components. It's very simple."

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

"It is very scalable."

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

"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."

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"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."

"I adore the NTA module that provides deep details on ingress/egress traffic for any interface. With a few clicks, you can correlate who is accessing what and when, beside the bandwidth consuming applications/users."

"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."

"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."

"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."

"There are many valuable features, including the network configuration manager, and the network performance manager."

"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."

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Cons

"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

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

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"We've had issues with pulling reports."

"Currently lacks a mobile application which would be helpful."

"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "

"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."

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"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."

"One area that could benefit from improvement is its performance"

"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."

"The product does not explain why a problem occurred."

"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."

"The technical support team's response time could be improved."

"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."

"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

"Customers pay for the license and the support."

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

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"Pricing is inexpensive, starting at 2440 euros. For that, you get the ability to monitor a couple of nodes and one year of maintenance and support."

"Nagios XI, WhatsUpGold, Uptime Software, PRTG, Manage Engine, and SpiceWorks are the other tools that have lower pricing and licensing costs. However, they can't compete with SolarWinds when it comes to the features and functionality that SolarWinds can provide."

"The solution's price is reasonable. Though it's on the higher side, the tool is worth the money."

"The solution is overpriced in terms of application management."

"I think SolarWinds' pricing is very decent compared to other competitors in the market."

"Understanding the counts of objects to monitor will determine the licensing need. In terms of pricing, it’s not cheap but it’s not expensive as larger vendors whose products don’t have all the features or integrations."

"I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."

"We pay around $ 2,000 to $ 5,000 yearly for the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

45%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

I primarily use DX UIM to capture performance data and faults.

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?

I wouldn't recommend DX UIM to other users because of its issues with reporting and stability - SolarWinds would be a better choice. I would give DX UIM a rating of seven out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?

For us, while the base price is the same, we are moving device types and are in the process of negotiating costs with Broadcom. They have a price for MSPs and also for services. We are trying to re...

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The product is expensive.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

One product area that could benefit from improvement is the synchronization of licensing periods across different modules. The misalignment of licensing terms can present commercial challenges when...

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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.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

Sample Customers

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

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