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."The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"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."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"This solution gives you a lot of reporting capabilities, and it has a very good interface."
"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 most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"The technical support services are good."
"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."
"It has an easy to learn web GUI and command lines."
"We are able to satisfy many different organizational needs because of its flexibility."
"The most valuable thing about Aruba ClearPass is its ease of use. It has always been a very reliable and very stable policy management platform."
"I like the stability and the GUI, which is always improving."
"Support is decent."
"What I like most about Aruba ClearPass is its access tracker that serves as its monitoring feature. The access tracker is really helpful when you want to troubleshoot authentication failures."
"It's very easy to access support and the documentation is self-explanatory."
"Aruba ClearPass's most valuable feature is dynamic segmentation."
"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."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"I would like to see is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service."
"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."
"We encounter delayed ETAs in the manufacturing of hardware."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"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."
"Lacks the ability to handle more than one certificate for both the management process and the Captive Portal."
"The user interface could be more polished and modern. It would be useful to have more options for automation."
"The interface could be made easier and more intuitive."
"Configuration should be more easy to understand between the link of two topics."
"ClearPass isn't hard to set up, but it takes a long time."
"Aruba ClearPass could improve the complexity of the initial usage. It takes some time to be good at it. It's not simple to build and connect the rules to the network you want to deploy them on."
"In the next version, I would like to see some enhancement or extension on the tracking side. For example, when any user enters the network, it should be more visible in the graphical form."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th 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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