We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Fortinet FortiManager 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."Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"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 Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"This solution gives you a lot of reporting capabilities, and it has a very good interface."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the error log and intrusion log. It also provides an overview of your assets. It gives a good database for wireless coverage."
"The best feature of Fortinet FortiManager is its ease of use. It is easy to manage the firewall from Fortinet FortiManager. Additionally, the interface is very good."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"The user interface, along with user-friendly planning features, makes it straightforward to configure desired settings."
"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."
"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"I would like to see an integration of services into one system, rather than having multiple systems to do multiple things."
"Its pricing and support could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"When we have a specific configuration pushed it does take some time to be deployed on the actual firewall."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"The CLI could be enhanced."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 17 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Huawei eSight and Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper. See our Aruba Airwave vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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