DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

WhatsUp Gold and DX Unified Infrastructure Management are two leading network management tools. WhatsUp Gold is preferred for its affordability and strong support, yet DX Unified Infrastructure Management impresses with extensive features, making it a preferred choice valuing feature-rich solutions.

Features: WhatsUp Gold users appreciate its network monitoring and alerting capabilities. Users also value WhatsUp Gold for its ease of use and real-time dashboards. In contrast, DX Unified Infrastructure Management is celebrated for its extensive monitoring features across various infrastructures, advanced analytics, and automation capabilities. However, DX's comprehensive tools give it an edge in delivering diverse insights.

Room for Improvement: Users of WhatsUp Gold suggest enhancements in reporting, faster updates, and improved mobile app functionality. DX Unified Infrastructure Management users desire a more streamlined configuration process, reduction in complexity, and better integration with third-party tools. DX's complexity is a significant user pain point compared to WhatsUp Gold.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WhatsUp Gold is noted for its straightforward installation, intuitive setup, and commendable customer service. Conversely, DX Unified Infrastructure Management’s deployment can be challenging due to its complexity, yet it offers robust customer support. While WhatsUp Gold performs well in ease of deployment, DX’s superior support levels the field.

Pricing and ROI: Users find WhatsUp Gold's pricing framework budget-friendly, delivering good ROI. WhatsUp Gold costs $14295 for a 25-device license. DX Unified Infrastructure Management, while more expensive at $385 per month for 15,000 data points, is seen as cost-effective in terms of its in-depth features which justify the higher investment. WhatsUp Gold wins on pricing; DX is viewed as valuable for feature scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Ranking in Server Monitoring

24th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

55th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

121

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), AIOps (21st)

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

26th

Ranking in Server Monitoring

14th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

27th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 1.2%, down from 1.4% 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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Tom Condo

Supervisor Information Services Operations at Seminole County Public Schools

If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue

When it comes to the intuitiveness of the topology mapping feature, our network architect created a vision diagram of our entire network and then created the links tied into the WhatsUp active monitoring to different spots on our topology map. It's one of the more critical functions we do here. We have the map displayed in different places in our room and help desk. We get alerted via emails but we can also see it visually. It does what it says it's going to do. We find this feature very helpful. The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one link. You can go into a particular part of the topology map, scroll in, and see exactly which module it is. All the information is provided. This feature really helps. You can see the correlation between that link and what failed. This feature is very helpful. The interface is fairly intuitive. Some of our users used SolarWinds and Nagios, and WhatsUp is easy in comparison. Once you get set up, the look, feel, and configuration are good. Our network architect had never used it before but he was able to create the Visio and map. It was very simple. He has no problems with it.

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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

"I recall the initial setup being straightforward."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"It is reliable when it comes to monitoring."

"The feature that we've found to be very helpful is the way the solution categorizes the devices to identify groups, groups of devices and clusters. This allows us to be aware of their position within the topology."

"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"

"It is easy to implement."

"It is very scalable."

"I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution."

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"The product is reasonably priced."

"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."

"It handles the basics of monitoring."

"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."

"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery function."

"The installation and configuration process are easy."

"The user interface is good enough."

"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."

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Cons

"We've had issues with pulling reports."

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

"There should be wider coverage of storage infrastructure."

"Making a GUI with criteria such as selection by robot/hub/probe etc."

"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."

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

"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."

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

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"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."

"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."

"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."

"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."

"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."

"Pricing is too high relative to how many devices we use. The price list is not linear to number of devices."

"The interface needs some work."

"The product is old and not updated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

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

"Customers pay for the license and the support."

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

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

"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."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"The price of WhatsUp Gold is good."

"The pricing can be on the expensive side when considering competing products."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"This is a well priced solution."

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...

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

I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...

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

The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...

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What do you like most about WhatsUp Gold?

The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

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What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

Improvements are needed in integration, especially for WhatsApp call and messages. Our region heavily uses WhatsApp Messenger for communication, and integration with this platform would be benefici...

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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.

Broadcom

Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

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Sample Customers

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

Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof

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