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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DX Spectrum

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.N/A

    Splunk On-Call

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as VictorOps, Splunk On-Call is an incident response system for developers, devops and operations teams that helps reduce outage time.N/A
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    DX SpectrumSplunk On-Call
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    DX SpectrumSplunk On-Call
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    DX SpectrumSplunk On-Call
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    DX SpectrumSplunk On-Call
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    DX SpectrumSplunk On-Call
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    As I said before, not only for Spectrum, but for any monitoring tool, you need to know what is critical in your environment and think about how exactly you should monitor and treat it. If you have done that, everything will work just fine.
    • Well Suited - Networking Monitoring
    • Less Appropriate - When you need to customize some monitoring and to update the version
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    Cisco
    I recommend Splunk on-call is more suited where there are high incident queues; multiple teams need to be involved in handling a P1 severity issue. Multiple levels of escalation are needed environment where automated action is required. I recommend the solution for large-scale & medium-scale business units. For small-scale business units, I see the functional value is less.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • 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.
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    Cisco
    • Easily assign work/tickets between multiple users
    • Supports a wide variety of software integrations
    • Easy to manage scheduling tool
    • As part of the Splunk toolset, provides detailed levels of data analysis at our engineers fingertips
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • NOC
    • Data Center/Telecom
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    Cisco
    • The user interface can be furthe improved
    • Licensing needs to be simplified and packaged as a bundle with other Splunk product like Enterprise Security
    • Customer outreach can be further enhanced
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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    Usability
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    Not a lot of love given to VO since the acquisition by Splunk from my POV
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    VictorOps support has proven excellent for us. Because it is such a widely used tool, there is a lot of documentation on usage, and a large community of users to lean on. Also, many engineers have had experience working with VictorOps already, and the tool is so easy to setup / manage that much support isn't really necessary.
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    Implementation Rating
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    It was a good solution with a good comprimise prize/features for our use cases
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    Other tools I have used are more server/application-centric. CA Spectrum seems to work effectively and efficiently for network devices. Notification delays can be set to grant grace periods in case of network blips or false positives, which occur ALL the time. Other monitoring tools send event notifications immediately and would clear instantly, which while on-call can wake a technician for no reason.
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    Cisco
    Splunk On-Call integrates better with our Splunk Cybersecurity and Reporting products due to the same family tree of the same eco system. We were previously using built-in on-call from individual applications and while adequate, they were difficult to manage and support SLA varied greatly across different applications. In addition we also used xMatters which did not integrate well with SAP products nor Citrix products so we were still using more than a single on-call product which was solved by implementing Splunk On-Call
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Proactive monitoring for networking
    • To many times to plan an update
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    Cisco
    • It runs our on call rotation so it makes it easy for us.
    • It integrates with Slack so it makes it easy for us to manage through Slack.
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