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What is Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management?
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Manager, formerly from CA Technologies, is a unified tool for systems monitoring and analytics. It offers multiple deployment options for IT teams and MSPs .
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What is Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management?
DX Infrastructure Manager (formerly CA UIM) is a unified system monitoring and analytics platform. The program can be deployed on-premises or as SaaS, and is designed for use by IT teams and Managed Service Providers (MSP). DX Infrastructure Manager can monitor across services and resources on-premises, in public or private cloud systems, or in hybrid environments, and send alerts for user-impacting issues and outages.
DX Infrastructure Manager also provides contextual analytics and reporting. These tools empower effective systems management and proactively identify user-impacting issues. It is designed to complement the DX AIOps platform, and integrates with other CA products.
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CA UIM, also known as Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management, has been utilized by customers across various industries such as banking, entertainment, government, healthcare, and Managed Service Providers. It showcases its versatility and effectiveness in performance monitoring and statistics. Managed service clients of Sirius Computer Solutions have successfully used CA UIM to monitor their assets and extend into client premises for event and performance monitoring. Additionally, consultants have leveraged the tool to monitor their own infrastructure, build/test test cases, create standard operating procedures, and customize configurations for their customers. This demonstrates the flexibility and adaptability of CA UIM in meeting the diverse needs of different users. Furthermore, CA UIM has become a central monitoring tool for IT teams, including critical business units, allowing them to efficiently monitor their application environments and promptly address any incidents that may arise. The tool offers customizable dashboards that combine database and application information, granting users the freedom to tailor the monitoring experience to their specific requirements while reducing the setup workload for the business team. Moreover, CA UIM enables proactive management of various infrastructure components such as network, server, storage, databases, and applications through advanced analytics and troubleshooting reports. The simplified installation process and intuitive visual wizard make it easy for different departments to collaborate effectively with this powerful monitoring solution. In summary, CA UIM has proven itself as an invaluable asset across industries and user groups. With its wide range of capabilities in performance monitoring and statistics, it empowers Managed Service Providers, consultants, IT teams, and businesses alike to optimize their infrastructure monitoring processes efficiently.
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March 15, 2021
A good agent based infrastructure monitoring tool
Score 7 out of 10
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Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management, which was originally called Nimsoft, is an infrastructure monitoring tool that has been on the market for quite a long time. I have been using this tool to monitor mostly all types of infrastructure components such as servers, applications, databases, network devices like routers, switches, firewalls, storage appliances like EMC boxes, etc. This tool gives you centralized control to monitor the entire infrastructure components via a single dedicated window.
- Agent based monitoring
- Database monitoring
- Server monitoring
- Agentless monitoring
- Web console
- Custom dashboards
- 3rd party integrations
- Easy implementation.
- Good customer support.
- Old tool in the market so a lot of expertise and documentation is available.
Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management gives you an extremely easy implementation facility whether it is the core application, reporting hubs, or agents. Apart from that, it has extremely good customer support. The documentation with respect to each component is really good. You can follow the documentation for implementation to the configuration of monitoring.
February 02, 2019
Comprehensive IT Infrastructure Monitoring Software
CA UIM is being used for proactively managing our Infrastructure including network, server, storage, databases, and applications. UIM provides advanced analytics and proactive trending reports to quickly troubleshoot root causes. Supports a simplified installation and deployment process with a step-by-step visual wizard which makes it easy to work with different departments. You can build your own dashboards which can provide management and the NOC a single pane view of all critical services and the entire infrastructure.
- Ease of management
- Unified platform
- Depth of infrastructure management. Has numerous probes which can help you monitor every aspect of your environment.
- Better Integration with Incident Management Tool, For instance CA ServiceDesk Manager (CA SDM)
- Log Aggregation and reporting on the Log Aggregation
- More Options with event management, better event correlation.
- Provided Root Cause Analysis. Improves your MTTR.
- Tracking SLA's with service providers.
- Very configurable. Lightweight agents. Ability to monitor a variety of applications, services, and servers.
- Ability to create custom dashboards for management and NOC. You can use your own DB queries. Very intuitive.
CA UIM is a perfect replacement for NSM and eHealth. Provides more options and continued support from the vendor.
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5
Monitoring Experience with different tools, knowledge of SNMP, WMI and scripting.
- Alert on critical services
- Automatic incident creation
- Root Cause Analysis, fault isolation
- Dashboards and reporting
- Custom scripting
- Dashboard to display service availability
- Determine SLA's
- Reach out to other departments for additional monitoring.
- Automatic Incident closure when the alert is cleared. Need to work on this requirement.
- Reports to business to display KPI's and what factors affect our SLA's with other vendors.
Yes
CA Unicenter Network and system management
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Cost and benefit analysis. Feasibility study.
- Implemented in-house
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DEV, test, and production.
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Configuring agents on Linux Hosts
- SNMP OID polling for certain vendors. This was eventually resolved.
Provided support during an upgrade to a newer version.
- Alerting
- Dasboards
- Reporting
- Log Aggregation
May 03, 2018
Nimsoft - Your Business Team will love it after they discover that they may create their own Dashboards :)
Nimsoft is currently the main monitoring tool for the company which I work for. It's being used by entire IT team, and some critical business units, that need to monitor their application's environment. We had a critical problem that was to show the incidents at the moment that they were happening, to a faster fix. Most of them were not just IT problems, but also business problems. And Nimsoft helped us to address them.
The tools also allowed us to give the freedom to these teams to create their dashboards, mixing database and other application information, with their application. This freed us from most of the dashboard setup, that was something that the business team had the knowledge (sometimes they create little monsters, but that's another history). Also, it solved the typical email warning message, to lots of people. We started to create warning groups, based on the big set of rules that Nimsoft have, when needed and to the right people, even preventing to warn people when the message was an error that could be expected in some scenarios (a deploy of an application that was already being addressed, for example) or yet to warn also the managers in some situations.
The tools also allowed us to give the freedom to these teams to create their dashboards, mixing database and other application information, with their application. This freed us from most of the dashboard setup, that was something that the business team had the knowledge (sometimes they create little monsters, but that's another history). Also, it solved the typical email warning message, to lots of people. We started to create warning groups, based on the big set of rules that Nimsoft have, when needed and to the right people, even preventing to warn people when the message was an error that could be expected in some scenarios (a deploy of an application that was already being addressed, for example) or yet to warn also the managers in some situations.
- Baseline Monitoring
- Multi-Tenant
- Speedup deploy
- Web Interface
- Business Dashboards
- Device History
- The use of flash in Dashboards
- Integration with more alert options (Slack, for example), out of the box
- Fast deploy also in the mainstream Linux Distros.
- Business Units love It - Good for them, but worse for the IT Team until we share the responsibility of the dashboards.
- If no one put their hands on it, it will take some time to give results. I'm talking about environments with 400 devices, for example, in something about 6 months to one year, if no one is dedicated, and depending on the consulting company. Some, even certified by CA, was not good. If possible, try to use CA services directly.
- IT Teams, after they start to notice that the tool really work, will want to monitor everything. Depending on the company, this will be more or less easy to measure, as ROI. And I'm telling this because usually IT teams don't know how to sell them to C-Levels, and the tool, because of the price, is always a motivation to questions like: "What is this tool? Do you really need it? Is there another way to monitor this?"
Basically, these other tools were easy to setup, I think sometimes even more that Nimsoft in some scenarios. But after you need to expand the size of the environment, or in big environments, for me, Nimsoft is the tool that allows you to grow with them. All of the other tools start to present problems in the database. When you need to think in bigger machines or start to "code inside the tool" to solve some performance problems, and other problems that appear. Nimsoft comes with a big set of documentation, and the support really works, as fast as you need, even as higher as you pay.
September 29, 2016
UIM & How It Fits Into A Greater Monitoring Infrastructure
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
I heavily leverage CA Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) for performance monitoring and statistics.
- Web interface has both great form and function. I've noticed the capabilities of what you can do via the web interface is getting closer and closer to that of IM's thick client.
- Deployment of probes and configuration packages is literally drag and drop. Quite easy to use and scale.
- I'd like to see improvements in inventory management. Currently node management isn't as efficient as I'd like.
- I also see a big opportunity to offer greater customization in the Detail Tab. I'd like the ability to pick and chose which metrics are displayed by default in the Detail Tab snapshot.
- Its helped a lot with quick fault isolation. We've been able to reduce the overall amount of time spent on determining where the issue is which leads to quicker resolutions.
September 21, 2016
CA UIM 8.4 still #disrupting after all of these years.
Sirius Computer Solutions utilizes CA UIM for our managed services clients. Our MSP clients utilize Sirius for various support level services and we base this on the core infrastructure of UIM to monitor their assets. By offering a solutionary framework such as UIM, we are able to extend into the client premises and monitor for both events and performance.
- Industry leading element correlation and metric discovery
- Proven message bus platform allowing outstanding performance
- Segregated dashboard views and client workspaces built on top of powerful LifeRay portal technology
- Advanced probes for AWS Cloud and Nutanix
- Advanced correlative views for hybrid infrastructures containing localized and cloud infrastructures
- Looking forward to the removal of Flash based elements
- Out of the box views still a bit dated and require updates to QOS to turn on all the views
- Inability to manually rename a CI from the portal
- Low cost of ownership allows us to pass along the savings to our clients
- As an MSP we are delivering support to our clients with a tool that does not add much to their monthly contract costs
All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc.