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DX Performance Management pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.1 out of 5

32 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

DX Performance Management integrates with multiple tools to streamline data consolidation, reducing outages by proactively identifying issues while offering data visualization and reporting. Though scalable for carrier-grade services, challenges remain with Business Hours Filtering and IP SLA data. Customer service is well-regarded, yet the upgrade process is complex, and Performance Center lacks features, prompting UIM purchase. Issues with database interconnections and limited certifications for device deployment further complicate its deployment.

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PROS

DX Performance Management integrates with NetFlow and NFA for effective flow forensics and SNMP polling on a single platform.

The implementation of DX Performance Management has significantly reduced outages by about 60% and provides real-time data.

DX Performance Management is designed for carrier-grade services, supporting multi-tenancy and scalability, making it suitable for handling a large number of devices and interfaces.

Certified device metrics are factory-loaded in DX Performance Management, eliminating the need for custom files, which ensures easy deployment and data accuracy.

DX Performance Management offers robust data collection capabilities and seamless integration with other systems, plus it is highly scalable and efficient for network performance management.

CONS

DX Performance Management faces challenges with report sorting flexibility, making it difficult to customize reports based on metric columns.

The upgrade process requires a backup, creating difficulties in converting large data sets.

Global synchronization errors occur, leading to incomplete processes under heavy load conditions.

Current business hours filtering in DX Performance Management does not work consistently, affecting report accuracy for specific times.

Security concerns arise due to installations performed as root, along with unstated database IO requirements leading to instability.

DX Performance Management Pros review quotes

Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 17, 2015

Technical support is very responsive and knowledgeable.

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Lead Network Performance Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Dec 18, 2016

It has improved efficiency because now there is the one-stop shop where you can view all your data, instead of needing to click around in four different tools.

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Consultant at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 19, 2017

It is easy to use, and the performance metrics are helping us to know our network better.

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Network Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 21, 2017

The reporting feature has allowed us to quickly share information with customers, keeping them up to date on critical devices that are being monitored.

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Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 27, 2017

The biggest selling point is putting the power of creating dashboards and reports into end users' hands.

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Consultant

Mar 31, 2017

It's a solution which is highly recommended.

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Technology Architect Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2017

Mainly as an MSP configuration, the multi-tenant model helps us to segment the customer and users, as well as providing our operation the capability to oversee all tenants.

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Infrastructure Services Engineer Sr, Enterprise Network at a insurance company

Oct 24, 2017

The integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass.

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Supervisor Of Event Management And Monitoring at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

Since the implementation of the tool, it has cut down on probably 60% of our outages and letting us know what is going on.

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Jeremiah Dinardo

Network Engineer at Wells Fargo

Nov 26, 2017

The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page.

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DX Performance Management Cons review quotes

Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 17, 2015

There are some issues. We started supporting UTA and began to see both major and minor problems.

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Lead Network Performance Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Dec 18, 2016

I would say the initial setup is complex.

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Consultant at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 19, 2017

The certificates are not complete. CA needs to provide more support for the product through certificates.

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Network Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 21, 2017

One of the greatest challenges we have encountered are the polling cycles.

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Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 27, 2017

The dashboard features are very function rich, but the reporting feature is probably not as rich as we'd like it to be.

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Consultant

Mar 31, 2017

The database should have higher availability in case of an incident.

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Technology Architect Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Apr 4, 2017

Today, tenants are bound to a data collector which requires a lot of networking and resources to configure.

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Infrastructure Services Engineer Sr, Enterprise Network at a insurance company

Oct 24, 2017

Some of the individual report views, the way some of the columns sort, there's room for improvement in giving us more flexibility in being able to sort reports based, for example, on what columns the metrics fall under.

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Supervisor Of Event Management And Monitoring at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now.

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Jeremiah Dinardo

Network Engineer at Wells Fargo

Nov 26, 2017

Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load.

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