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."The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"Stability is good within the product."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."
"FortiManager offers a full zero-touch provisioning feature that allows us to create a template of our devices and onboard them remotely without visiting the site."
"It makes management very easy."
"It is stable."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"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."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"The CLI could be enhanced."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The compatibility with legacy products should be better. It would also be nice if the software could manage other devices from Fortinet and third parties."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 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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