We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Aruba ClearPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."This solution is definitely stable."
"The Clarity feature makes it easy to use and understand what is going on with your network in a nice dashboard."
"AirWave definitely helps us troubleshoot and get to the root cause of the issues. It gives you an excellent indication of what's going on within your network at different locations. You can get to the area, take a look at the AirWave analysis, and make informed decisions."
"The technical support services are good."
"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."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are the GUI and its ease-to-do configuration. Additionally, we can troubleshoot many things in one window."
"Aruba ClearPass is a simple solution for customers to see what is happening on their network."
"The continuous server and posturing are valuable."
"We find that at the end of the projects we manage, all functionalities perform quite well. We've tested it a lot and find it to be overall a very good solution."
"The support is top notch, expert, and very friendly. "
"ClearPass's best feature is its comprehensiveness."
"The setup is simple."
"The aspect of Aruba ClearPass that I like most is that it has a lot of options, it is very versatile."
"I want a management solution to manage and monitor everything from a single dashboard. This is not there with Airwave."
"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."
"Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"We encounter delayed ETAs in the manufacturing of hardware."
"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."
"Its pricing and support could be improved."
"The product's graphical user interface (GUI) could use an update and better integration between the guest management and policy management interfaces."
"The initial setup phase of the solution was really very difficult, owing to which the setup phase can be considered as an area that can be improved."
"The implementation can improve because it is challenging to explain some of the concepts to the client."
"They should include SMP functionalities."
"The AirWave Dashboard heat maps could be better designed."
"ClearPass isn't hard to set up, but it takes a long time."
"If you look at the tool's deployment phase from a fine-tuning perspective, I feel it was very complex."
"ClearPass' interface could be more user-friendly."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 reviews while Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6. 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 Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and Ruckus Cloudpath.
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