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, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"It contains valuable features for engineers to C-level executives, who want visibility, performance, statistics, and a platform which can take action for them without manual intervention, saving time and money."
"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."
"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'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."
"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."
"A mature and functional product."
"It has an easy to learn web GUI and command lines."
"It eliminated the management of 10 different individual discrete RADIUS servers."
"The interface is very easy to use and the workflow is quite straightforward."
"The most valuable feature, I would say, is the cost-effectiveness of the solution when compared to others."
"We are mainly using Aruba ClearPass for our clients for securing access to their on-premise assets. As per customer expectations, we are trying our best to track the complete user activity in the network. This is the main and the core feature we require."
"A lot of the issues in Forescout are mitigated in Aruba ClearPass, it supports all the expected protocols."
"ClearPass's best feature is its comprehensiveness."
"Cost is always a big issue for partners."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"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."
"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."
"Its pricing and support could be improved."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"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 want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"The AirWave Dashboard heat maps could be better designed."
"The GUI of Aruba ClearPass could improve, it is not user-friendly."
"One area for improvement would be the possibility of using social media providers for user authentication."
"The technical support has some room for improvement. It takes them a long time to respond sometimes. I rate Aruba support six out of 10."
"The implementation can improve because it is challenging to explain some of the concepts to the client."
"Instructions on adding layouts are not as clear as they could be."
"Aruba ClearPass could improve the user interface, it is a bit chunky."
"Like most security products, ClearPass is difficult to deploy. You need to use the CLI to implement security products from any vendor, so configuring the authentication is complicated."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 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 and Fortinet FortiManager, 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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