We performed a comparison between Aruba Airwave and Aruba ClearPass based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."What I like best about Aruba Airwave is its orchestration feature because it saves configuration time. I also like that it allows you to do ZTP installations for new Aruba equipment."
"Aruba Airwave provides a robust solution for monitoring and configuring Wi-Fi networks."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba Airwave is the multivendor support, which enables you to manage and monitor different vendors or products."
"It has improved my organization by increasing troubleshooting opportunities which makes things more efficient."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution is not overly expensive."
"This solution gives you a lot of reporting capabilities, and it has a very good interface."
"I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"What I like most about Aruba ClearPass is that it has the best enforcement feature for the network. I also like its Guest Captive Portal and virtual security enforcement features, but the virtual security enforcement feature is still under testing by my company. Aruba ClearPass also has a wonderful UI which I find valuable."
"Aruba ClearPass's most valuable feature is dynamic segmentation."
"Aruba has improved my organization because it supported me on my level of access."
"The visibility and security features are most valuable. We get a clear view. It is a very secure product for educational institutions."
"Its clustering model saved us staff time and reduced errors by eliminating the need to manage individual RADIUS servers."
"The most valuable feature of Aruba ClearPass is its ease of use and the GUI is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are the GUI and its ease-to-do configuration. Additionally, we can troubleshoot many things in one window."
"Aruba ClearPass is a simple solution for customers to see what is happening on their network."
"Cost is always a big issue for partners."
"They should make it cheaper. By doing that, they can replace Cisco, which is also very expensive. If it is equivalent to Cisco in the features, with a reduced price, they can sell it more than Cisco."
"More devices or vendors should be onboarded to Aruba Airwave."
"Its pricing and support could be improved."
"We're looking for more device compatibility. Like compatibility with third-party devices."
"Pricing for Aruba Airwave could be cheaper, which is an area for improvement in the solution."
"Whenever you get an error it doesn't immediately tell you what the thing is that is causing the error. You have to sit down and research it. If it could say what error is causing the issue, it would make my troubleshooting a lot quicker."
"I would try to integrate more products from different vendors in future releases. Because that's really good features that Aruba Airway has, but it's so limited."
"I remember our technical team stating that the installation front of the solution was a bit difficult when compared to other solutions."
"The initial setup phase of the solution was really very difficult, owing to which the setup phase can be considered as an area that can be improved."
"Aruba needs to improve and the processes must be clear."
"TLS authentication onboarding in Aruba ClearPass needs to be improved. The biggest problem we've seen in our environment is Huawei not being able to get onto Google Play. No Huawei device can be onboarded via Aruba ClearPass easily."
"ClearPass' interface could be more user-friendly."
"The scalability could improve."
"An issue with Aruba ClearPass is the lack of information and poor community support. You can't find the material easily on the internet for any issues. For example, if you're looking for any configuration or exploring any issue, it's not easy to find information, and this is the problem with Aruba ClearPass. Access to helpful information and poor community support could be improved. Another area for improvement in Aruba ClearPass is that some of its advanced features aren't easy to find. For example, my team needed to apply Google single sign-on, but it wasn't easy to find. Aruba ClearPass is a big solution with a lot of capabilities, and it's a very advanced solution, so you need to either have some experience with it or undergo some training. Aruba ClearPass is a very good solution from the network perspective, but the issue is the poor support you get from the community. When you try using the solution, some areas aren't easy. When you search on YouTube, you'll find very few materials about Aruba ClearPass. It isn't like Cisco where you can find information from hundreds of websites, on YouTube, etc. This is bad for Aruba, so this area should be improved. Aruba has a training center, but the usual training offered is only for Aruba Wireless and Aruba Switches. If you have another solution, it's not easy to integrate it with Aruba ClearPass, so this is an area for improvement. You need to do some research to successfully integrate your solution with Aruba ClearPass. We integrated Aruba ClearPass with Ubiquiti WiFi, and it's working fine with no issues. My next project is to start integrating Aruba ClearPass with Cisco Switches. The solution is good, but on the website, there's no book and no video, and you can't find the material on Aruba ClearPass easily. This is one of the issues with Aruba."
"They should include SMP functionalities."
Aruba Airwave is ranked 6th in Network Management Applications with 17 reviews while Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews. Aruba Airwave is rated 8.4, while Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Aruba Airwave writes "The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". Aruba Airwave is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Cisco Prime, Fortinet FortiManager and Huawei eSight, whereas Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Microsoft Intune and Ruckus Cloudpath.
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