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."
"I like how Auvik gives us a quick overview of the overall situation."
"Auvik is phenomenal at network monitoring as well as for other functionalities such as remote access or backups. A really cool feature that it has is that it takes a backup of all of the configurations automatically. Auvik periodically, most probably on a daily basis, logs into all the switches and firewalls that you have on-site to see if there is a change, and when there is a change, it does a new backup of the device. It logs changes for you. If you start experiencing some issues, you can go back to those logs to say, "Oh, there is a change made last week, Thursday," and with Auvik, you can just roll back to that snapshot nicely and quickly."
"Automatic alerting is probably the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is device discovery through SNMP."
"In my experience as an MSP, Auvik stood out for its ease of deployment."
"The alerting feature has been a very key piece for us, especially in the data center because we manage it ourselves... Within the data center, we have an RDS farm that all the users from the facility connect to. Whenever something may be slow, we can look at the alerting and it helps us troubleshoot whether the issue is at the facility level or at an infrastructure level."
"It shows all my devices and it shows everything that is possibly connected to the network... It gives me how many devices or switches are connected, and what is connected to each switch, including how many printers are on it."
"The most valuable feature in Auvik is that it lets us know when a network is down. It lets us know right away and we can find out what's causing it: whether it's the firewall, an AP, or there's a whole network outage. It makes things easier by giving us an "eye in the sky" when we're not on the site. It's great for monitoring."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"The SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."
"There is something called zero-touch provisioning, where you can add a new device without any configuration. You just add it to FortiManager and then forget about it."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiManager are the overall management it provides and its ease of use."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The user interface, along with user-friendly planning features, makes it straightforward to configure desired settings."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One drawback I found with Auvik was its inability to generate clear network diagrams."
"It uses SNMP in its discovery process and how it pulls in data. But today it doesn't have an SNMP trap facility so you can't have your infrastructure devices push alerts into Auvik. And that for us would be a big feature that we would like to see."
"The user interface could be less cluttered."
"The one thing that I need more help with is the networking of virtualization hosts. I need more information on those hosts and which virtual networks are attached to what, the virtual switches that are in there, and how they function. None of that exists currently."
"The general feature set could use some work. For network mapping and network alerting, it's great for what it does. But it could provide more monitoring, such as jitter monitoring, which it doesn't have, and round-trip time for packets. I would like to see more network detail on the actual traffic that's flowing through the network."
"The training is not intuitive."
"The pricing always has room for improvement."
"It's missing the license checker feature. We are using Salesforce and the license is a really crucial part of the development, and we have to monitor it. Now, I have to write a script and then run it on a random Linux box and get a notification if it's expiring. It's a really specific feature. I'm not sure Auvik will develop it."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 3rd in Network Monitoring Software with 139 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, Zabbix and Wireshark, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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