We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum 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 most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"We can monitor MPLS network VPN, network configuration, and backups. It's highly scalable for network configuration management."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"I like the rapid deployment feature. I also like that it's easy to troubleshoot. FortiManager is amazing because we can have a centralized policy. All our devices are integrated, and we can also engage in troubleshooting. We can use it for different deployments. One fantastic feature is the ability to create a version and deploy it immediately."
"FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"You can configure it at your ease."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"The compatibility with legacy products should be better. It would also be nice if the software could manage other devices from Fortinet and third parties."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"Its licensing model should be improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 59 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". 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". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec. See our DX Spectrum vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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