DX Spectrum vs. HP OpenView (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DX Spectrum
Score 6.5 out of 10
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DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.N/A
HP OpenView (Discontinued)
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
HP OpenView, later HP BTO was a system and network monitoring tool from Hewlett-Packard, and is now End of Life (EOL).N/A
Pricing
DX SpectrumHP OpenView (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DX SpectrumHP OpenView (Discontinued)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DX SpectrumHP OpenView (Discontinued)
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User Ratings
DX SpectrumHP OpenView (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
DX SpectrumHP OpenView (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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HP Openview really helped us when we migrated our old SAP Data from IBM Platform to OpenText.
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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.
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  • SAP Batch Job monitoring.
  • File Systems
  • Database Montioring
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Cons
  • NOC
  • Data Center/Telecom
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  • Monitoring interface should be more user friendly.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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User friendly, easy to access and more detailed info during the monitoring.
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Return on Investment
  • Proactive monitoring for networking
  • To many times to plan an update
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  • Biggest support in maintaining 10,000 Linux servers.
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