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DX Unified Infrastructure Management pros and cons

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4.1 out of 5
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PROS

DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides comprehensive monitoring for open systems, enabling businesses to monitor applications, infrastructure, and business processes effectively.
The scalability and flexibility of DX Unified Infrastructure Management allow it to grow with the infrastructure without requiring additional products.
It offers over 200 out-of-the-box probes with the option to write new probes or request them from CA based on demand.
The integration of Jaspersoft reporting delivers excellent reporting and analytics, enhancing decision-making capabilities.
DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers visibility into network activities and aids in capacity planning and optimization of network performance.

CONS

DX Unified Infrastructure Management requires improvements in performance reporting and inventory management capabilities.
Specialized technical support needs enhancement due to limited trained personnel.
Users find the reporting and customization features inadequate, often resorting to external tools like Power BI.
Lack of templates and a central repository for probes results in a time-consuming onboarding process.
The complexity of DX Unified Infrastructure Management setup, particularly in agent deployment and audit functionality, poses challenges.
 

DX Unified Infrastructure Management Pros review quotes

it_user401061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 24, 2016
It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server.
it_user779157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts.
it_user778560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
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.
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InfrSpc9365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available.
reviewer1363779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 8, 2020
Great out-of-the-box capability.
reviewer1713387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 28, 2022
I recall the initial setup being straightforward.
itarchit489981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2022
What I like about DX Unified Infrastructure Management is that it's a very good product. The feature I found most valuable in the solution is the MCS feature, which is the automatic deployment of the objects you want to monitor. You can set up a system, for example, if it's a Windows machine and I want to test specific devices on it, I could do that through DX Unified Infrastructure Management. That type of deployment is very good because it means you won't miss any monitoring aspect on any server.
KN
Sep 25, 2019
It gives us visibility inside applications. It helps us to dig down and find the root cause of any issue within the network.
reviewer1395900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 6, 2021
One of the things that I like about DX Infrastructure is that the topology is good enough to see what is happening in the infrastructure. You also get alerts if something is happening in the network. There are many features and benefits. It is serving our customers in knowing exactly how their network is performing in terms of reliability. It also helps them in planning the capacity. They know how much bandwidth the branches are consuming.
Arunpandiyan M - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 26, 2022
Technical support is great.
 

DX Unified Infrastructure Management Cons review quotes

it_user401061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 24, 2016
A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer.
it_user779157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
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.
it_user778560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
We would like to see automatic network topology.
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InfrSpc9365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2017
In the UMP, certain devices will show up multiple times and they don't correlate correctly. That's one of the issues.
reviewer1363779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 8, 2020
The company has not kept pace with developments.
reviewer1713387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 28, 2022
The dashboards need to be improved.
itarchit489981 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2022
I'm very happy with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, but what could be improved is its user interface because currently, it has many wide spaces. All the information you need is in DX Unified Infrastructure Management, and it's a reliable tool, and though that's more important than the gaps in the user interface being smaller or wider, those gaps still need some improvement. I know the team is working on it. My company had some backend problems with DX Unified Infrastructure Management in the past that have now been solved. The setup for the tool also needs improvement because it's complex. Another room for improvement in DX Unified Infrastructure Management is its technical support because it's sometimes not as knowledgeable or responsive. What I'm suggesting to be added to the tool is an open-standard ELK Elastic-based database where you can put in all data, so that you can use the data in other systems as well.
KN
Sep 25, 2019
There is also room for improvement in the reporting. It is not really good enough, according to our customers. So what we now usually do is use Power BI to get them the kinds of reports they want.
reviewer1395900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 6, 2021
The only challenge that I have with this solution is the reporting part. The users are not really comfortable with the kind of reports they are getting. Sometimes, they want to see reports in their own format. Customizing those reports with Jasper is not very easy. It could be because of the knowledge gap. If you have the knowledge of how Jasper can be configured to suit customer requirements in terms of reporting, it is good. There was a time a customer complained about one issue related to Netflow analysis. Broadcom has a separate model for that, but the customer wanted everything bundled together. It could also have IP management so that I am able to see or analyze IPs so that the IPs that are already in use don't get assigned.
Arunpandiyan M - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 26, 2022
We've had issues with pulling reports.