We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) 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 features of Cisco DNA Center are wireless assurance and visibility."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"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."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"The most valuable feature is the provisioning of the device so as to ensure that they are compliant with the security policy that we need to have."
"It has all of the features available, in fact, more than what you need."
"They have recently made a lot of improvements. My clients don't have much to complain about."
"It's flexible and stable. It's been good as a standard environment to run."
"It has allowed us to pull in multiple authentication databases, then centralize them into a captive portal system."
"I found the CMDB Direct Connect in Cisco ISE 3.2 the most promising feature for my use case."
"I like the automation of the collection of information."
"The most valuable feature is AnyConnect Posture because it scans all the programs on the workstation and checks if the antivirus is up to date, as well as the cryptographic keys on our SSD."
"The solution can be quite pricey."
"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."
"The weaknesses primarily involve pricing and the ongoing need for increased bandwidth and data throughput."
"They should include UTM features in the product."
"The product doesn’t have good monitoring capabilities."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"They can improve the network visibility. Licensing and its maintenance are also needed."
"There should be an option for automation of template deployment by using the stored data. It is not easy to save configuration information for lots of devices without using other tools. There should be a tighter, better repository of information that can be merged with the templates."
"Migration could be better. Right now, we back up with the new version, and it requires a lot of licensing and other things. Whenever we choose a product, it's very difficult because we have to meet the requirements of each feature. There is no standard feature, so the best system that we bought may not fit the solution. We have to look at every feature that the customer uses. If you compare it with other products like Aruba, it's not the same. With Cisco, I have to read all about the features on this version and the licensing required for the product. In Aruba, that thing is covered when you get one license because it covers almost everything. It could also be more scalable."
"Profiling is a really good feature. However, it sometimes is a challenge for customers when there are issues with the remediation part. I would add a built-in remediation solution. That would be a very nice feature."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"On the network services devices, when you click on filter, the filter comes up. However, when I type in a search and I want to click on something it defaults back to the main page. I keep having an issue with that, and I'm not doing anything wrong."
"They should improve the upgrades. It's not easy to upgrade the solution."
"Whenever we see the authentication logs, we can't see what device we're logging into... We can see who logged in, but we can't see the IP address of the device... I'm sure that's available. We just haven't figured out how to properly deploy it."
"Third-party integration is important, as well as the continuous adaptation feature which is the AIOps. It would be helpful to include the AIOps."
"I believe that Cisco can improve the way its policies are built because it's a little complex."
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Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is ranked 1st in Network Access Control (NAC) with 137 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) writes "Gives us that extra ability to assist the end user and make sure that we are making them happy". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and Huawei eSight, whereas Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and Fortinet FortiAuthenticator.
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Hi Anyman
1- first you need to enable pixgrid setting at CIsco ISE at Admin setting.
2- You Need to activate ISE as Radius in DNA Setting tab at the left corner (user name and password is any ISE administrator user ).
3- From Network Hierarchy Tab in DNA Cisco choose ISE as your AAA server.
4- You need to create STG group at policy tab to create the proper user grouping.
4-Then go to provision / fabric / switch interface then apply ISE as your authentication profile.
Most Importantly you need to ensure that your fabric switch has DNA advantage license