We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom and others in DX NetOps."The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"The product should provide performance management features."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack.
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