DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs NetCrunch comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and NetCrunch compete in the infrastructure management category. DX Unified Infrastructure Management seems to have the upper hand in features and support, while NetCrunch excels in ease of use and monitoring.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is praised for scalability, detailed analytics, and strong automation capabilities. NetCrunch is known for intuitive dashboards, extensive data collection, and alert management.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management users suggest enhancements in user customization, a more straightforward learning curve, and better user experience. NetCrunch users recommend better integration capabilities, advanced reporting features, and more integrations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management deployment is complex but has responsive customer service. NetCrunch is easier to deploy with less initial setup but has mixed reviews on customer support.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management has a higher initial setup cost but provides a good return on investment due to its comprehensive feature set. NetCrunch offers competitive pricing with a faster realization of ROI because of easier deployment.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

75th

Ranking in Server Monitoring

24th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

55th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (41st), AIOps (21st)

NetCrunch

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

85th

Ranking in Server Monitoring

26th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

63rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (77th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetCrunch is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Arunpandiyan M

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support

There are quite a few manual processes. We've had issues with pulling reports. Sometimes we have trouble or get errors. The reporting process should be easier. If you have a hub, you should be able to have an unlimited number of servers. For example, if you have 500 servers, and the limit is ten, you have to pull 50 reports. We'd like to just pull one report for all servers. This also increases the time to pull reports. If we have to pull more reports, it takes that much longer than just pulling one. The product can be expensive. Right now, they are updating and consolidating the dashboard. I'm expecting an update that will resolve a few glitches in the server.

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Reginald Pierre

Senior Systems Administrator, Technical Lead at Connectivity Wireless

A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better

The initial setup is fairly easy. Most of it's wizard-based. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to set it up. But if you don't know certain things related to protocols and everything else, it might be difficult. If you know how SNMP works, it'll be fairly simple to set up.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."

"I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution."

"It is easy to implement but requires good planning."

"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."

"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."

"It is easy to implement."

"Great out-of-the-box capability."

"The real value is our being able to pull all the historic data that we need in order to gather every little metric and nuanced piece of information from a given device, a given piece of infrastructure, in order for us to generate alerts."

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"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."

Cons

"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "

"I'm very happy with DX Unified Infrastructure Management, but what could be improved is its user interface because currently, it has many wide spaces. All the information you need is in DX Unified Infrastructure Management, and it's a reliable tool, and though that's more important than the gaps in the user interface being smaller or wider, those gaps still need some improvement. I know the team is working on it. My company had some backend problems with DX Unified Infrastructure Management in the past that have now been solved. The setup for the tool also needs improvement because it's complex. Another room for improvement in DX Unified Infrastructure Management is its technical support because it's sometimes not as knowledgeable or responsive. What I'm suggesting to be added to the tool is an open-standard ELK Elastic-based database where you can put in all data, so that you can use the data in other systems as well."

"We would like to see automatic network topology."

"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."

"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."

"A useful feature to have would be automatic configuration per standard by new robots that check in for any particular customer."

"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."

"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."

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"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

Broadcom

NetCrunch is the complete network monitoring solution for monitoring traffic, topology, devices, systems, logs, and services. It's policy, and template-based configuration makes managing thousands of nodes a breeze. It automatically generates layer-2 maps and manages monitoring dependencies. NetCrunch supports major operating systems, virtualization platforms, and the Cloud. Complete SNMP support with 8,700+ MIBs included and a built-in MIB compiler.

AdRem Software

Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

AER Kooperation, AON Corpration, Advance Financial services, Airbus SAS, Bauer Net consult, Banco Soal, Bertelsmann, Burke County public, COF training services

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