We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Cisco Prime 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."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."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"The technical support services are good."
"This solution is definitely stable."
"It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."
"We use the solution to control the physical service station that is part of the SCADA network. We connect and control them remotely."
"As a large organization, it is difficult to individually monitor every device. Instead, we use Cisco Prime to keep an eye on the network and services. We do not use it as a node tool, as we have other tools for network operation centers. When services go down, it can cause issues, we rely on Cisco Prime to monitor and notify us of any service disruptions. We mainly use Cisco Prime Infrastructure for configuration-level tasks."
"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."
"The technical support team is very good."
"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"The installation is easy."
"It helps us manage and monitor analytics and fix issues."
"The overall monitoring of this solution could be improved."
"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."
"We encounter delayed ETAs in the manufacturing of hardware."
"We sometimes have problems with troubleshooting between the GUI and the CLI manipulation."
"The integration with other platforms like Cisco needs to be improved."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"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."
"Maybe it could be a little cheaper."
"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."
"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."
"We would like to see the inclusion of detailed alerts."
"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."
"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."
"The user interface of Cisco Prime could be more user-friendly and increase its performance."
"The overall management capabilities of Prime need to be improved."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 16 reviews while Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Cisco Prime is rated 7.8. 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 Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Fortinet FortiManager, Huawei eSight and Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight, HPE Intelligent Management Center and Fortinet FortiManager. See our Aruba Airwave vs. Cisco Prime report.
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