DX Spectrum Reviews

Availability and outages reporting is valuable.

It gives an depth report of availability and outages, and by using it you can further analyze and find exactly where the bottlenecks lie.

A lot. Decommissioned servers availability and outages keep showing and that is annoying because it's ultimately contributing to the final availability (actual) which it should not.

I've used it for two and a half years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I've never had to use it.

I've never had to use it.

I didn't use a previous solution.

It's a bit complex.

55%-75%.

No other options were evaluated.

It's not the best product for availability and outages reporting.

• NCM backup
• Ease of going through the event history

The product was underdeveloped at our organisation for various reasons, so I am unable to comment.

Mainly testing on CA's side!

I've used it for 18 months.

Yes, multiple issues were encountered. Most were related to the lack of testing and inadequate documentation.

Yes, IM was very shaky and it seemed like CA were throwing hotfixes at us to fend us off until the next release.

No issues were encountered.

5/10.

8/10 but 10/10 when they were pushed.

Yes, we used Nagios, and SCOM. It not my decision to switch and I don't know why.

You either know how to deploy such a system or you don't. the manuals were 5/10.

We used an in-house team.

We also evaluated HP Openview.

Spectrum is designed for large infrastructures, anything less than 4000 devices and it is probably a waste of money

The one-click console.

We use this as part of our infrastructure monitoring and it's done through a console. With the timely alerts that our MTTR reduced, we could determine the impact of the outage as well as the root cause of the issue.

It took a while to understand the product, but once we went hands on, it's great to work with. I have previously used Tivoli Enterprise console which doesn’t need any expertise and is easy to learn.

I've used it for two years.

I have never seen an outage of the tool.

My organization is rapidly growing with servers being added to the data center and we have never faced any issues.

I have never used customer service.

Using the tool comes as part of my job because my company uses CA Spectrum for their infrastructure monitoring. Previously, I have used Tivoli Console.

Setup was very straightforward.

It was done in-house.

I have used the product to monitor our company’s infrastructure.

I would strongly recommend it.

It is an excellent product. It is probably one of the best we have seen in terms of being able to do mass configurations in the network.

Timing is always important when a network loses connectivity. It has allowed minimal downtime with the ease of being able to quickly isolate and resolve any outages.

I really can't say there are any at this time. We are happy with the product.

We have used this product for seven years. We were looking for a tool that could both monitor and provide additional tools for configuration updates.

Deployment was not an issue. Support was fairly good.

There have been few issues with stability and overall it's very stable and effective.

We are not a large corporation. Yet the product was able to scale very well.

The customer service was quick in response and thorough. No complaints.

9/10.

No previous solution used.

Creating the infrastructure did not prove extremely difficult. It was organized and detailed. It fully represented out network on all levels.

Definitely recommend it. It's a good investment.

Alarm Monitoring

It was used as a tool to observe critical alarms on network nodes and act immediately.

The tool fails to launch sometimes, and this was a frequent occurrence.

Seven months.

No issues encountered.

Latency in access at times.

Never attempted scaling.

6/10.

7/10.

No I haven't.

Straightforward setup.

We used a vendor team.

Not many others.

We also use CA eHealth tool.

I used to use it for the server but switched to Nimsoft because it's much better for servers.

It's deployment tool is horrible.

2 years

Yes, there are issues - detecting servers is impossible.

We've had stability issues with the database and clients not working.

Not that I've experienced.

7 out of 10

7 out of 10

We used an external vendor team.

I switched from Spectrum to Nimsoft because it's a better product for me. The network admin still uses Spectrum.

It provides several valuable features, including Spectrum Core, Report Manager, and VM Manager.

Our team has been able to maintain over 99% availability across the enterprise. 

We've also been able to proactively detect four major client-impacting outages over the past nine months.

I would like to see improvement in the ability of the user to configure the maintenance mode more efficiently.

We haven't had issues with deployment.

We haven't had issues with stability.

We haven't had issues with scalability.