Name: DX Spectrum
Rating: 6.5 (17 reviews)
Author: Broadcom

Call Center Workforce Optimization

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Chatbot

Functional Testing

Kubernetes Monitoring

No-Code Development

Development

Admissions and Enrollment

Classroom Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Facility Management

Statistical Analysis

Workspace Planning

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounts Payable

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Hedge Fund

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printing

Block Storage

Cloud Data Warehouse

Cloud Storage

Configuration Management Databases

Deception Technology

Encryption Key Management

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

IoT Device Management

Load Balancing

Network Performance Monitoring

Operating Systems

SOA Governance

SaaS Backup

Server Virtualization

Service Desk Outsourcing

Vector Databases

WiFi Hotspot

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Success

Digital Content Creation

Email Marketing

Market Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Usability Testing

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Onboarding

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Field Sales Software

Sales Performance Management

Sales

Agriculture

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Dealer Management

Direct Secure Messaging

Equipment Rental

Fleet Management

Insurance Suites

PCB Design

Rental Property Management

Restaurant Management

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DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum) is network fault management software, from Broadcom company CA Technologies.

Standard

Professional

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

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First 10,000 Metrics

Next 240,000 Metrics

Next 750,000 Metrics

Over 1,000,000 Metrics

Dashboard

Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec)

Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec)

Alarm - Composite

Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion)

Logs - Store (Archival)

Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries)

Events - Custom

Events - Cross-account

Contributor Insights

Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events

Canaries

CloudWatch Evidently - Events

CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units

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DX Spectrum

Event Monitoring Software add automation to incident management across an IT infrastructure and applications by logging events and organizing alerts so that managers are aware of changes in metrics that signal meaningful performance change.

Event Monitoring

Likelihood to Recommend

OpServices OpMon

N-able N-central

IT Manager

CA Spectrum 2018-08-01 15:32:26

Connected Data

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)

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Connected Business

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CA Spectrum 2017-03-21 12:39:55

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Multiple devices

Current time

Start time

Report generation

Data center

Real time

Level overview

High level overview

Network monitoring

Home

Event Monitoring Software

I've been working with this tool for ten years. We have an ongoing vendor support team and we have an in-house one. For implementation advice, I would say always plan your monitoring according to what you really need to monitor on your environment. Most of the problems we find today are related to operation process issues and not the tool at all. People have to know what they want before implementing the solution. The main valuable features for CA Spectrum are the network monitoring features, they are the product’s most valuable, due to the lack of these capabilities in any other monitoring tool. No other application monitors networks as well as Spectrum. Free tools are available to do what its other features do, such as server monitoring (CPU/memory/disk).

We are not using the latest version of the tool yet, but as far as I know, I think improving the reporting of data would be a good idea. The report area is very poor and we cannot work properly with additional information and the custom reports. We just use the default report for information that we have inside the database for these reports. 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. The CA support team is really capable and efficient when it comes to Spectrum. Most of the time they help us surprisingly fast and correctly. Setting up general monitoring is straightforward. However, if you need something different than the standard setup, some customizations need to be done. Thus, it becomes more complex as a whole.

As I’ve written, not only for Spectrum, but for any monitoring tool, you need to know what is critical in your environment and think how exactly you should monitor and treat it. If you have done that, everything will work just fine.

Network Monitoring
The most stable and less problematic solutions that we work with.

Proactive monitoring for networking
To many times to plan an update

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CA Spectrum is being used by the monitoring, network technician, and network engineering teams at our organization. This keeps operations proactively aware of any preemptive issues, degradations, and outages within the network infrastructure. The monitoring team validates that the event is true, network technicians repair physical connections, while the network engineers configure the network devices.

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.

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.

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.

ScienceLogic, System Center Operations Manager, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

DX Spectrum
Formerly CA Spectrum

Overview

What is DX Spectrum?