DX Spectrum vs. IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor

Well Suited:

• To detect network anomalies, outages, packet loss, blocks, floods, disconnections, link statuses, power supply failures, UPS failures/low batteries, etc.
• Basically anything that can and will go wrong with the network, Spectrum will give you the drop before user community is aware.

Incentivized

• Polling and traps can be configured to take heartbeats at specified intervals and notify on an event in real-time, respectively.
• Topology of devices gives a high-level overview of network architecture.
• Discovery of devices is simple and secure with the use of community strings.
• Details can be added per device or alarm type for actions to be taken to make troubleshooting easier.

Incentivized

• NOC
• Data Center/Telecom

Incentivized

To be honest, Spectrum is one of the most stable and less problematic solutions that we work with. It’s easy to scale and to deploy. The only time we’ve had problems with it was with some upgrading processes. It is not so intuitive and you have to make sure everything is correct.

Incentivized

• Proactive monitoring for networking
• To many times to plan an update

Incentivized