#1 most frequent
United States of America
50.9%173 installations of 340
What is DX Spectrum?
DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses DX Spectrum
#2 most frequent
Brazil
7.6%26 installations of 340
#3 most frequent
France
5.0%17 installations of 340
A good reason to choice a great networking monitoring tools
Pros
- Network Monitoring
- The most stable and less problematic solutions that we work with.
Cons
- NOC
- Data Center/Telecom
Return on Investment
- Proactive monitoring for networking
- To many times to plan an update
Other Software Used
Zabbix, SolarWinds N-central, OpServices OpMon, CA Unified Infrastructure Management
Network Monitoring with CA Spectrum
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- Searching multiple devices of different IP ranges or hostnames simultaneously.
- Setting manual maintenance mode on a device to use current time as start time.
- Report generation.
Return on Investment
- Compared to competitors, CA Spectrum leverages affordability and effectiveness.
- Proactive solution to get a head start on Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).
- Outages can be prevented. Ex) A network switch connected to a UPS (to protect from blackouts and power surges) on a failed battery will notify net techs thru Spectrum to replace the battery before it is depleted and causes an outage to users.
Other Software Used
ScienceLogic, System Center Operations Manager, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager