We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"It can scale well."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"A fully integrated solution."
"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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"It's easy to use."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"The reporting details have room for improvement."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"The presence of Fortinet in our region (Nigeria) needs to be stronger."
"The solution has some bugs."
"A switch should be introduced."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the GUI and remove the command line interface. All the functionality should be available from the GUI. Day-to-day management can be tough for IT administrators. Additionally, the reporting is not very good."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace.
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