We performed a comparison between Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"One of the most valuable features is the remote monitoring. It monitors the egress and ingress bandwidth and you can add custom rules to monitor if something is wrong. You can also add your own metrics if needed."
"The traffic insights and the configuration management are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the syslog tool and the nearly invaluable network map."
"The ability to have visibility on a network to see the traffic and the ability to see if devices are misconfigured and if something changes in that configuration, are most valuable."
"I find the mapping topology, traffic insights, and reporting to be the most valuable features that Auvik offers."
"It also integrates with our ticketing system. We use ConnectWise and having that integration is valuable for billing and for all-around general management. Having one product that can integrate with everything is valuable because we don't have to worry about building out APIs or custom maps to do that for us."
"A simple site view with the associated devices populating as things to add to or remove from the network is valuable. It's also nice to have it integrated with our ticketing system to create tickets in certain cases for devices that go down or have some high-level alerts, such as high CPU or overtemperature."
"The network map is fantastic. The backup of configs is also valuable. It does SSH into each network device and retains a copy of the configs on the machines as well as the change logs. So, when something suddenly stops, you can compare the configs to see what happened. You can do a side-by-side comparison of the configs to see exactly what changed. That's fantastic."
"The solution is very stable."
"FortiManager's ability to scale is good."
"Provides good and detailed log management."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"The solution brings device management into one single pane of glass and is a pretty good product."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"When credentials are rejected, I'd like to get a little information about why in the error message."
"The search could be slightly more intelligent. If I type in "Dell" and put an extra "L," Auvik doesn't give a suggestion, "Did you mean 'Dell?'" I have to fix that."
"The user interface could be less cluttered."
"Some of the discovery methodologies could be improved upon. It removes the device that is offline, but when that gets added back, if there is any custom information saved for that device, such as it's a smartphone, you have to change and reenter the information all over again. It would be nice to not have to manually modify certain devices that get added to the network."
"For the most part, it's great for visualizing the network mapping/topology for our organization. However, when complex VLAN networks are involved, sometimes, the picture can get a little cloudy. It would definitely be nice if there was some way of choosing a VLAN to view or something like that. They should definitely improve the handling of multiple networks and VLANs."
"I wish there was a way to reduce the cost somehow."
"The user interface is not intuitive."
"Automatic configuration backups would be an excellent feature for network devices and access points. The solution could take a backup of the configurations weekly and store that, which would be very nice."
"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 price is a bit too high."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"The product is not very stable."
"There is a degradation of performance if we activate logs on FortiManager."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 3rd in Network Monitoring Software with 133 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". 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". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and Meraki Dashboard, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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