We performed a comparison between ExtremeManagement and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The technical support services are good."
"The best thing about the solution is that it is all managed from just a single application window. We call this feature a single pane of glass due to the fact that almost all the features are all managed within a single application, or a browser, to be more specific."
"The report model is one of the valuable models. We are able to see all the information concentrated in reports, which is very useful. We are able to get the information about the performance of the equipment and check that everything is okay. You can get very useful information across applications, so we have very good experience with their management solutions. It has many functionalities to simplify the administration and monitor the development of the switches or AP. It is easy to deploy, easy to configure. and easy to develop. Its price is also good."
"ExtremeManagement brings in the most value by reducing the technical debt to the organization in terms of having to hire personnel to maintain it or contract it."
"I need fewer people to do implementation and support, and I don't have to go on-site to change the configuration or otherwise support the switch."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"The features are good."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"Provides good and detailed log management."
"It can scale well."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"They can improve the information period. Currently, we are able to have information for only 14 or 15 days, but we would like to have information for an extended period of maybe 30 days. Their technical support can also be improved in terms of the response time to the tickets."
"Some features are quite difficult to configure and they are very complicated to figure out. Maybe the vendors should introduce a more driven configuration that can clarify the processes a bit more to make the processes more clearly defined."
"It would be great to not need an on-premises SiteIQ license for running a Fabric OS cloud or managing third-party devices."
"There could be better integration with third-party equipment and vendors."
"It would be helpful if this solution had support for configuring and managing third-party hardware devices."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"You cannot integrate with other solutions."
"The SD-WAN solution is difficult to manage on FortiManager because you need to share some configurations on the firewall side. Sometimes you lose all connectivity with the firewall, so it is challenging to apply the default configuration to the SD-WAN solution."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
ExtremeManagement is ranked 14th in Network Management Applications with 5 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. ExtremeManagement is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ExtremeManagement writes "Mature and robust platform; can be used to manage Cisco switches". 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". ExtremeManagement is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, ExtremeCloud IQ, DataMiner and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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