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Aruba Airwave vs Fortinet FortiManager comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Sentiment score
7.4
Fortinet FortiManager's support is satisfactory but challenged by slow responses and varying technician expertise, needing regional improvement.
After that, I was allowed to work with another engineer who was very good. He was very good both technically and his methods.
We've found them to be very helpful and have been satisfied with their level of support.
We get our support from Fortinet in Belgium, so we can communicate directly with a technician in Belgium.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
4.3
Fortinet FortiManager needs better documentation, support, stability, integration, and performance, especially in configurations, GUI, and monitoring.
There are many features that are not mentioned in the documentation.
If I'm defining a subnet, I need to define it in two different locations.
Instead of paying separately and having all of these licenses, it would be nice to centralize everything and maybe reduce the price for a bundle.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.7
Fortinet FortiManager is highly scalable for managing many devices, though costs can rise with increased scalability needs.
We can add a new instance of FortiGate with a simple click.
If they have, for example, 50 devices and suddenly need 100, they just need to scale up.
It has been designed for a large environment.
 

Setup Cost

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6.3
Fortinet FortiManager is competitively priced, scalable for large deployments, with varying perceptions on costs and additional feature fees.
Fortinet products are the least expensive on the market in the category of firewalls.
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.
It isn't like other solutions where you need to pay for SD-WAN or additional bandwidth.
 

Stability Issues

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8.1
Fortinet FortiManager is highly rated for stability and reliability, though occasional reboots and minor bugs are reported.
There are no bugs or glitches.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give stability a ten.
I rate the solution's stability ten out of ten.
 

Valuable Features

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8.3
Fortinet FortiManager excels in automation, centralized management, and ease of use, enhancing network security and performance efficiently.
FortiManager also delivers the industry’s best scalability to manage up to 100,000 Fortinet devices.
With Fortinet FortiManager, we can manage multiple firewalls and devices from a central point.
The most valuable feature is having one object on all networks, which allows for implementation only once.
 

Categories and Ranking

Aruba Airwave
Ranking in Network Management Applications
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fortinet FortiManager
Ranking in Network Management Applications
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Network Management Applications category, the mindshare of Aruba Airwave is 8.2%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiManager is 4.7%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Management Applications
 

Featured Reviews

Prashant-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution has multi-vendor support, and it can be used for network management
Aruba Airwave is an on-prem solution, so you have to manage it with your servers to be deployed. You can also deploy it on the cloud if you have your own private cloud. All the configuration guides and the different types of designs you need are available from Aruba Airwave's portal. I would recommend Aruba Airwave to other users. Overall, I rate Aruba Airwave ten out of ten.
HamedWasel - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices
We've faced an issue when we need to move devices. Templates need to be recreated instead of having the policies, et cetera, cut and pasted over. Everything should just move over when we need to move devices instead of recreating everything from scratch. For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Government
8%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Aruba Airwave?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aruba Airwave?
The tool is expensive. If one is bad or expensive, and ten is very good or cheap, I rate the product's price as a six.
What needs improvement with Aruba Airwave?
The tool's expensive nature is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product's scalability can be improved.
What do you like most about Fortinet FortiManager?
The most valuable feature is the centralized management console.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiManager?
On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.
What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiManager?
The graphics interface between Fortinet FortiManager and any Forti products should be standardized. Doing a configuration change directly in the UTM is not the same as doing it via FortiManager for...
 

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Sample Customers

Henkel, University of Findlay, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Iowa
Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data
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