Associate Consultant at vvolve management consultants
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-27T06:53:54Z
Feb 27, 2023
DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved. There are also issues with its stability, and it requires a lot of effort to execute and implement something.
Some probes or agents are not multi-tenant. We have been asking Broadcom to improve them to be multi-tenant. That said, it is just some agents, not all. For example, most of the agents are multi-tenant. However, for example, the agents for cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google are not multi-tenant. This is difficult for us since we are a service provider. The display layer, the portal for the customers, is not very easy to work with. We are also trying to ask them to change the way that the customers can see the information in the portal. The dashboards need to be improved. For example, we collect a lot of QoS data. However, out of the box, that data is not displayed in the portal. We need to manually create one dashboard for each QoS. It's not very helpful since we have a lot of customers - which means thousands and thousands of servers and applications. We need to do a lot of things manually. That is not very good.
Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2022-11-04T14:19:45Z
Nov 4, 2022
I would like to have the option to monitor via mobile phone so it would be helpful if DX would develop a mobile application. I'd like to see a single dashboard and automation implemented as part of the solution.
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.
We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue. We would also like to see some enhancements in assignment and adaptation functionality for consoles.
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.
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We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user-friendly for our system administrators. Also, the solution is quite complicated, so we would like there to be better documentation on the processes, in order to ensure we know exactly how it works.
Techincal Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-03-06T17:16:52Z
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.
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DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved. There are also issues with its stability, and it requires a lot of effort to execute and implement something.
Some probes or agents are not multi-tenant. We have been asking Broadcom to improve them to be multi-tenant. That said, it is just some agents, not all. For example, most of the agents are multi-tenant. However, for example, the agents for cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google are not multi-tenant. This is difficult for us since we are a service provider. The display layer, the portal for the customers, is not very easy to work with. We are also trying to ask them to change the way that the customers can see the information in the portal. The dashboards need to be improved. For example, we collect a lot of QoS data. However, out of the box, that data is not displayed in the portal. We need to manually create one dashboard for each QoS. It's not very helpful since we have a lot of customers - which means thousands and thousands of servers and applications. We need to do a lot of things manually. That is not very good.
I would like to have the option to monitor via mobile phone so it would be helpful if DX would develop a mobile application. I'd like to see a single dashboard and automation implemented as part of the solution.
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.
We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue. We would also like to see some enhancements in assignment and adaptation functionality for consoles.
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.
We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user-friendly for our system administrators. Also, the solution is quite complicated, so we would like there to be better documentation on the processes, in order to ensure we know exactly how it works.
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.