We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Fortinet FortiSIEM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"The product has excellent stability."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the user and entity behave as analytics(UEBA). This feature mixes your data and provides useful information based on the behavior of the targeted."
"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."
"FortiSIEM's best features are the dashboards and customization."
"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."
"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."
"It's a very nice solution to work with."
"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."
"Easy alert setup which enables different alerts in different categories."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."
"The log collection and configuration management are not great."
"FortiSIEM needs to expand its integration with third-party vendors. I don't know if Forcepoint has been added, but there were limited resources for integrating Forcepoint solutions when we implemented FortiSIEM. It integrates well with other Fortinet products and solutions from established cybersecurity companies like Palo Alto but doesn't integrate with some of the newer vendors."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"An improvement would be if FortiSIEM's licensing was based on the number of nodes rather than the EPS."
"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."
"The backup and recovery process for this solution needs improvement."
"The product does not have Security Orchestration and Automation Response, I would recommend adding this feature."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 8th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 63 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix, Cisco DNA Center and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM and Wazuh. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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