We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime 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 is the assistance for network support."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"The VLAN mapping function has been most impactful in simplifying our network management tasks."
"The technical support team is very good."
"The solution helps with the management and support of the enterprise network."
"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."
"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."
"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."
"The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."
"It's a scalable product."
"FortiManager enables us to set unified firewall policies from one centralized dashboard, reducing human error. If you do not have a central dashboard, there's a chance you might set a policy on one firewall and forget to do it for another."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"FortiManager's ability to scale is good."
"Lacking in integration with a SIEM tool."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"The onboarding process could be improved and developed to enhance compatibility for non-Cisco devices."
"Some improvements are needed, specifically in the form of more updates and enhancements."
"The user interface of Cisco Prime could be more user-friendly and increase its performance."
"The product needs to improve its stability."
"Maybe it could be a little cheaper."
"I want the tool to improve data visibility."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"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."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"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."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 34 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 59 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". 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". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and ExtremeCloud IQ, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper. See our Cisco Prime vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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