We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Aruba ClearPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."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 solution is not overly expensive."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"This solution gives you a lot of reporting capabilities, and it has a very good interface."
"It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"This solution is definitely stable."
"The technical support services are good."
"It makes it easy to require robust user authentication for both wired and wireless endpoints, including BYODs."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What I like best about Aruba ClearPass is its 802.1X certificate-based authentication feature."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are its ease of use and the general network access controls."
"ClearPass is effortless to use and configure. It's not hard to learn the tool, and it has lots of features."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba ClearPass is its ease of use and the GUI is user-friendly."
"The continuous server and posturing are valuable."
"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."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"We encounter delayed ETAs in the manufacturing of hardware."
"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."
"I would like to see an integration of services into one system, rather than having multiple systems to do multiple things."
"Instructions on adding layouts are not as clear as they could be."
"Aruba ClearPass has a complex pricing scheme, so that's an area for improvement. The process for setting up Aruba ClearPass also needs improvement. It could be easier."
"I would like the area of managing wired technology to be improved. Wireless is very good but I'm still struggling a bit to do my end to end configurations in the wired technology area."
"The improvement can be in the cloud area. They can improve it for the cloud so that we can deploy it on the cloud."
"Licensing cost is extremely high."
"Lacks the ability to handle more than one certificate for both the management process and the Captive Portal."
"It would be good if ClearPass made it a SaaS solution."
"The scalability could improve."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 17 reviews while Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6. 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 Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Fortinet FortiManager and Huawei eSight, whereas Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and Ruckus Cloudpath.
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