Fortinet FortiManager Reviews

Name: Fortinet FortiManager
Brand: Fortinet
Rating: 4 (57 reviews)

Vendor: Fortinet

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Networks are constantly evolving due to threats, organizational growth, or new regulatory/business requirements. Traditional management products focus on mitigating company-wide threats through firewall policies, firmware updates, and keeping content security current. FortiManager offers the features to contain threats as well as providing flexibility to evolve along with your ever-changing network.

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ChristianBenjamin

Pre-Sales Engineer at Cable & Wireless Communications

Aug 23, 2023

What is our primary use case We had a customer that had about five locations and at each location, they needed a management device. We installed FortiManager at the head office and all locations report back to it. What is most valuable? Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very…

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Presales Consultant at Redington (India) Ltd

Aug 25, 2023

The installation is very easy. Documentation is very easy to find on the partner portal. Configuration can be a big task. It depends on the scope of work. However, a fresh install might take about one hour. One person can easily deploy the product. That said, it depends on the environment. For example, if some devices are located in another location, another person may need to be there. You might need some credentials for that location as well. There is some maintenance for proper monitoring and updating to the latest version of firmware. If you get any error messages or alerts, you'll have to action them. One person can handle maintenance tasks.

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AhmedAboalassaad

Network & Security Team Head at Amiral

May 15, 2023

What is our primary use case I use this solution to manage my VDOMs and FortiGate policies. What is most valuable? It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device. We can manage VDOM, backup and restore configurations, and FortiGate. We have ten…

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Pricing

"If you compare Fortinet and Palo Alto, Fortinet is cheaper, but if you compare Cisco and Fortinet, sometimes Cisco is cheaper because Cisco gives us more discounts because of the size. Cisco isn't cheap, but sometimes, we get a big discount from them."
"The price of Fortinet FortiManager is inexpensive."
"Fortinet FortiManager operates on a licensing system that is dependent on the number of devices being managed. Yearly subscription renewal is necessary to continue using the service. Although there is a cost associated with Fortinet FortiManager, its price is undoubtedly justified by the value it provides in terms of the purpose it serves."

Valuable Features

"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"The features are good."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."

Room For Improvement

"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."

Pricing

"If you compare Fortinet and Palo Alto, Fortinet is cheaper, but if you compare Cisco and Fortinet, sometimes Cisco is cheaper because Cisco gives us more discounts because of the size. Cisco isn't cheap, but sometimes, we get a big discount from them."
"The price of Fortinet FortiManager is inexpensive."
"Fortinet FortiManager operates on a licensing system that is dependent on the number of devices being managed. Yearly subscription renewal is necessary to continue using the service. Although there is a cost associated with Fortinet FortiManager, its price is undoubtedly justified by the value it provides in terms of the purpose it serves."

Valuable Features

"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"The features are good."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."

Room For Improvement

"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."

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Fortinet FortiManager is the #3 ranked solution in top Network Management Applications. PeerSpot users give Fortinet FortiManager an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Fortinet FortiManager is most commonly compared to Zabbix: Fortinet FortiManager vs Zabbix. Fortinet FortiManager is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.