We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime 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."What I found most beneficial from Cisco Prime is that it gives you an insight into what your network does, even when you're not actively monitoring what's going on with your network."
"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."
"As a large organization, it is difficult to individually monitor every device. Instead, we use Cisco Prime to keep an eye on the network and services. We do not use it as a node tool, as we have other tools for network operation centers. When services go down, it can cause issues, we rely on Cisco Prime to monitor and notify us of any service disruptions. We mainly use Cisco Prime Infrastructure for configuration-level tasks."
"Cisco Prime allows us to manage all the wireless controllers and access points."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."
"The installation is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat map."
"FortiManager offers a full zero-touch provisioning feature that allows us to create a template of our devices and onboard them remotely without visiting the site."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiManager are the overall management it provides and its ease of use."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface, along with user-friendly planning features, makes it straightforward to configure desired settings."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"The product's pricing can be cheaper."
"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."
"The onboarding process could be improved and developed to enhance compatibility for non-Cisco devices."
"The solution is not easy to configure."
"It should be able to monitor Palo Alto, Juniper, and Check Point products - not just Cisco solutions."
"We would like to see the inclusion of detailed alerts."
"The solution has issues with real time monitoring of devices and NetFlow such as inadequate visualization for reports, sources, and destinations."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"FortiManager could be more user-friendly."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". 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". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and HPE Intelligent Management Center, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. See our Cisco Prime vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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