Cisco Prime [EOL] vs Huawei eSight comparison

"Cisco Prime is a good tool for inventory monitoring and wireless management."

"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."

"Cisco Prime has been around for a long time, and it keeps getting better and better."

"The technical support team is very good."

"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."

"As a large organization, it is difficult to individually monitor every device. Instead, we use Cisco Prime to keep an eye on the network and services. We do not use it as a node tool, as we have other tools for network operation centers. When services go down, it can cause issues, we rely on Cisco Prime to monitor and notify us of any service disruptions. We mainly use Cisco Prime Infrastructure for configuration-level tasks."

"The solution's configuration management tool is amazing because it centralizes and pushes configurations which saves a lot of volume and effort."

"Cisco Prime allows us to manage all the wireless controllers and access points."

"The solution's most valuable dashboard features include monitoring storage, resource availability, and hardware alarms."

"I like the real-time location monitor or RTLS feature. It is similar to the monitoring feature in Cisco Prime."

"The most important features are alarm management and the visualization of the health of our network devices."

"We can scale the solution."

"One of the most beneficial features of Huawei eSight is its simplicity and ease of use."

"We use Huawei eSight to monitor devices like Wi-Fi controllers, LAN switches, and routers."

"eSight allows me to monitor and solve any problem in the backbone and any switch in real-time."

"Huawei eSight provides businesses with monitoring capabilities of network devices across your network."

"The solution can be slow at times."

"I would love for Cisco Prime to show bandwidth usage and consumption, but I can't monitor bandwidth usage at a given time."

"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."

"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."

"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."

"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."

"This solution could be improved if it could monitor configuration changes."

"The solution needs to include centralized management that aligns with the Greenfield network and its focus on real-time, scenario-based applications."

"Something that could be improved is the lack of integration with Cisco switches. In the next release, I would like to see better reporting."

"The solution and the operating system come separately. It would be easier if we did not have to deploy anything. A bundle feature would be better."

"It is not a very flexible product."

"This solution could be improved by offering monitoring for all devices and not only Huawei devices."

"The price could be less costly."

"eSight has many features and options, but sometimes, we feel that it should be more advanced, like Cisco. It would be good if they can enable some automation part in eSight. Most of our customers want automation in their network. They don't want a dependency on everything. That's why the automation part must be improved in Huawei. It will be beneficial for customers. Cisco has different products, and there are multiple products for monitoring, automation, etc. In the software-defined network, Cisco has ACI, and VMware has NSX. Such options must be there in Huawei to move to a software-defined network. Unlike Cisco, in the case of eSight, there is only one product. I am not aware of any other product. It would be good to enhance it with at least some automation options so that we can use it effectively in the campus network or big data center environment. When I implemented this Huawei solution, I faced some limitations in particular areas like wireless scanning. This is another part that they can improve. Wireless reporting option is not as effective as other monitoring solutions. For a particular use case, if a customer is asking for some reports, sometimes they are not 100% satisfactory. The reporting structure must be improved."

"It will be better if they can make the simple network topology part more presentable. It would also be better if they had API integration and integration with third-party devices."

"Huawei eSight should work on the option to have the email notification working on Office 365 Exchange."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"If we have a license for Cisco DNA, we can use the same license for Cisco Prime."

"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."

"The cost is quite high."

"The solution is not inexpensive but is worth it for large-scale environments."

"We update the license every five years."

"You need to get special quotes from the company for each order."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"Pricing depends on the competition. If your competitor is like Cisco, then Huawei is much more competitive when it comes to pricing."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

"Its pricing is better than any other Huawei product. Some products are cheaper in Huawei, and some products are cheaper in Cisco. Cisco has more benefits and options than Huawei if you consider different network environments."

"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The pricing depends on which features you use and can become expensive."

"The price is very expensive."

"The pricing for Huawei eSight is reasonable, especially with the base license and incremental licenses for additional devices. However, the variety of license types can be a bit complex. We used to sell eSight but switched to another solution, so we're not actively trading it anymore."