We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."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."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The user interface, along with user-friendly planning features, makes it straightforward to configure desired settings."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"When we have a specific configuration pushed it does take some time to be deployed on the actual firewall."
"Its licensing model should be improved."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"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."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"Performance issues should be improved. We have problems when we have more mobile connections than local devices. Most of us have two to three devices."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director.
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