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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), also known as Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), was an application monitoring solution focusing on user experience, with an emphasis on how the network – especially the WAN – influences user experience. It is a legacy product from Dynatrace, and is no longer sold or supported.N/A

    LiveAction

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedLiveAction
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedLiveAction
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedLiveAction
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued and LiveAction
    Feature
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    7.2
    3 Ratings
    9% below category average
    LiveAction
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued and LiveAction
    Feature
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    LiveAction
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedLiveAction
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinuedLiveAction
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, has improved greatly compared to when it was DCRUM; however, it still needs a lot of improvement in end-to-end flow capture with regards to network monitoring. Its alerting and integration capabilities are very good and easy to use. But it still needs a lot of tweaking in usability.
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    BlueCat
    From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Dynatrace DCRUM can monitor legacy application protocols that are still used in a lot of organizations worldwide who still trust in those technologies.
    • DCRUM monitors client-server architectures very well and can pinpoint issues along an infrastructure stack.
    • Dynatrace DCRUM can analyze a wide spectre of protocols: Corba, DNS, DB2, Exchange, TCP, HTTP, IBM MQ, Citrix, ICMP, Informix, Tuxedo, SMB, LDAP, MSRPC, MySQL, NetFlow, Net8, Oracle Forms, RMI, SAP GUI, SAP HANA, SAP RFC, SMB, SOAP, XML.
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    BlueCat
    • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
    • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Major upgrades process is sometimes unpredictable.
    • The use of SQL Server should be evaluated for something else.
    • Easier SSL key handling.
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    BlueCat
    • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
    • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
    • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Best of breed.
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    BlueCat
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    The only thing missing for a 10, would be if they texted or called you back.
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    BlueCat
    Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Nagios can't trace real user transactions from a front-end tier through a backend-tier,;with Nagios you only can monitor server availability and hardware issues. Riverbed is commonly used to determine networking issues without considering real user transactions impact on an application stack.
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    BlueCat
    There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, helped us get a lot of info on an ongoing issue.
    • It helped us figure out network bottlenecks in our environment.
    • It is a very costly tool and a lot of other cheaper tools give same kind of info.
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    BlueCat
    • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
    • Great reporting features for executives.
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