We performed a comparison between Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I like the feature that allows us to remote access and remote troubleshoot many of the devices, including terminal Windows."
"It does provide very useful metrics, and it has improved a large portion of our day-to-day operations."
"The alerting feature has been a very key piece for us, especially in the data center because we manage it ourselves... Within the data center, we have an RDS farm that all the users from the facility connect to. Whenever something may be slow, we can look at the alerting and it helps us troubleshoot whether the issue is at the facility level or at an infrastructure level."
"Credential management is the most valuable feature. It's helpful to have everything in one essential place."
"All of the features are valuable, but the ability to remote into anything, whether it's a terminal or a browser, is really big for us. It makes things a lot easier day-to-day."
"The most advantageous feature is the ability to back up the configuration settings on switches and routers."
"Automated configuration backups and automated network diagrams are the most valuable."
"A simple site view with the associated devices populating as things to add to or remove from the network is valuable. It's also nice to have it integrated with our ticketing system to create tickets in certain cases for devices that go down or have some high-level alerts, such as high CPU or overtemperature."
"It's a scalable product."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The best feature of Fortinet FortiManager is its ease of use. It is easy to manage the firewall from Fortinet FortiManager. Additionally, the interface is very good."
"The setup is very simple."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The ability to subcategorize our inventories, between physical and VM servers, for example, would be a welcome addition."
"Onboarding devices could be easier. When you first add a device to the Auvik platform, you need to add each one by hand. It would be nice if they could automate the process where we only need to run a script."
"I would like Auvik to alert on IP conflicts."
"When I change IP addresses on a device or on a server, I have to wait for Auvik to figure out that change. It will tell me the device is offline until Auvik scans the whole subnet again and finds it. If I change 25 devices, I'll get 50 emails in a short time because they've gone offline."
"I would like firmware/software updates for hardware, for at least switches and routers. I already have the feature request in, and it is on their list of things to try and do. Cisco stuff has been notoriously and historically kind of a pain to do, and that is what we use primarily. So, that would be a wonderful thing to get, as it is a device-by-device process. It would be nice to be able to get through that at least in a less fiddly way. It is a pretty manual process now."
"The user interface could be a little bit faster, and there should be a legend in the map."
"Auvik's notifications could be better."
"When you need to tailor an onboarding for a customer who wants different triggers and conditions for alerts that don't come out of the box in their default alert set for certain device types, you can make it happen and create those, but doing so isn't that easy."
"The fabric for integrations or connections could be improved."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"The documentation could be better."
"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."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 3rd in Network Monitoring Software with 131 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". 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". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, Meraki Dashboard and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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