We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum 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."Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The fault management is perfect."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"The SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."
"It makes management very easy."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device."
"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 doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"The platform is complicated to use."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"FortiManager could be more user-friendly."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"The solution has some bugs."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 59 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". 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". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec. See our DX Spectrum vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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