We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center 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."The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"I think that their LAN automation is a very good feature."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"What's most valuable in Cisco DNA Center is the ability to manage any Cisco infrastructure and device through it. Setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco DNA Center is the AI (Artificial Intelligence) that provides us with valuable information."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"Centralized configuration is the most helpful feature. I like the ability to create templates and push them to all the devices at the same time. I also like that I can see the the logs with one device to provide zero touch on all other products."
"It can scale well."
"Stability is good within the product."
"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"It makes management very easy."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"There is a limitation with the number of VRFs that you can have in your network, and this has caused us problems with some customers."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"It seems to be a little bit more centered toward wireless than wired. You've got more options you can do wirelessly than you can with the wired switches, but it works for what we need it to do. We would like to see a little bit more about the traffic, and we're looking at what's out there to see about that. We are looking at something that might give us a bit more insight into the actual traffic. If they had the full functionality on the wired side, as they do on the wireless side in terms of being able to view traffic and everything, it would be good."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The tool's IoT integration should be better."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"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."
"Can be difficult to configure."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 36 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Zabbix, AlgoSec and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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