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."It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"The reports feature is excellent."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized management console."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"We look at the traffic to segment the network and it improves and increases the performance. When we have a mobile connection and local laptops are on the same network. We have seen a big performance upgrade."
"The firmware version upgrades are the most valuable feature."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"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 is “AAS”. Not only Aruba APs with central, but NAC/ClearPass, AirWave, and everything licensed as a Service."
"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."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"We encounter delayed ETAs in the manufacturing of hardware."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"Its pricing and support could be improved."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"The presence of Fortinet in our region (Nigeria) needs to be stronger."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"Regional support in African countries needs to be improved."
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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