We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass and Cisco DNA Center 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."It helps secure IoT endpoints for specific networks."
"Good user profiling and BYOD facilities."
"It does a lot of things automatically, and that's the big thing with it. They're making the software so that you don't need to be as knowledgeable as me on the switching and routing side to get your work done. If you want, you can have DNA troubleshoot your problem for you and give you solutions or fix it itself, if it was something that's just a configuration issue."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"I like the visibility, instant build, network, policies, and the ability to control access. I also like that you can visualize your whole network."
"I think that their LAN automation is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it gives some kind of ease in operations, especially since our company is moving from CLI to GUI-based configuration."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"Lacks application level visibility on the dashboard."
"There could be in-built end-to-end map integration features for IoT devices instead of using third-party tools."
"What could be improved is the licensing cost of Cisco DNA Center. It's a little bit expensive."
"The task failure reporting or provisioning failure reporting could be a little bit better in the UI, with more information given to the user."
"When it comes to deploying wireless fields, integrating defaults into the DNS interface can be challenging."
"Cisco DNA Center was a new technology for us, at the beginning, it was not easy to do, but Cisco did a lot of training with us to a level we could handle everything. The team is managing itself now without the assistance of Cisco."
"I would like is to have a small information pointer available. It could be a plus feature that I want to implement. When I hover my mouse over the user interface, it should provide a brief explanation. It would be helpful to have it incorporated into the UI."
"The product has many features that do not work properly."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The solution's integration feature can be better."
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is ranked 20th in Network Management Applications with 2 reviews while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is rated 9.0, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass writes "Has an automated feature for user onboarding and supports heterogeneous devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is most compared with Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance. See our Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass vs. Cisco DNA Center report.
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