We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Cisco Prime based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can interact with other vendors better than Cisco, which is a good point of AirWave. It is easy to use, and its reporting is good."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"This solution is definitely stable."
"It's scalable because it's licensed per device and we bought licenses with each device. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability."
"What I like best about Aruba Airwave is its orchestration feature because it saves configuration time. I also like that it allows you to do ZTP installations for new Aruba equipment."
"AirWave definitely helps us troubleshoot and get to the root cause of the issues. It gives you an excellent indication of what's going on within your network at different locations. You can get to the area, take a look at the AirWave analysis, and make informed decisions."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"If an AP or any wireless device goes into critical mode, Cisco Prime sends an alert. That is the most helpful feature."
"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."
"The interfaces are a valuable feature."
"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."
"As a large organization, it is difficult to individually monitor every device. Instead, we use Cisco Prime to keep an eye on the network and services. We do not use it as a node tool, as we have other tools for network operation centers. When services go down, it can cause issues, we rely on Cisco Prime to monitor and notify us of any service disruptions. We mainly use Cisco Prime Infrastructure for configuration-level tasks."
"The installation is easy."
"The solution provides data that allows us to time travel through logs and perform remote operations or troubleshooting."
"What I found most beneficial from Cisco Prime is that it gives you an insight into what your network does, even when you're not actively monitoring what's going on with your network."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker."
"I would try to integrate more products from different vendors in future releases. Because that's really good features that Aruba Airway has, but it's so limited."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"I would like to see is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"This solution could be improved if it could monitor configuration changes."
"Cisco Prime could improve the notifications in the system. Having more details about what is happening would be useful, such as traffic numbers or who is connected. We can see them through the firewall controller, but it would be better if you can see them from one place."
"It should be able to monitor Palo Alto, Juniper, and Check Point products - not just Cisco solutions."
"They can also improve the management of more enterprise devices."
"The reporting could be simplified and the information made clearer to the user."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"Cisco needs to improve Prime's monitoring tab. If any device goes down, there is a 15-second lapse before we know. It would be much better if we were alerted two or three minutes before a device is about to fail, so we can dispatch a field engineer and avoid network downtime. I would like to see a feature that allows you to access the devices directly from Prime's monitoring tab. That would make work easier for us."
"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 reviews while Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Cisco Prime is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Aruba Airwave writes "The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Fortinet FortiManager, Huawei eSight and Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight, Fortinet FortiManager and HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our Aruba Airwave vs. Cisco Prime report.
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