Cisco Prime [EOL] vs Huawei eSight comparison

"The technical support team is very good."

"Cisco Prime is user-friendly, so we are comfortable using it."

"The product's most valuable features are monitoring and configuration."

"The endpoint information Cisco Prime generates helps us troubleshoot, and it's also useful for compliance reporting and endpoint identification."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."

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

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

"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."

"The product is stable."

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

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

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

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

"We can scale the solution."

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

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

"Maybe it could be a little cheaper."

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

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."

"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."

"The product's pricing can be cheaper."

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

"Cisco needs to improve Prime's monitoring tab. If any device goes down, there is a 15-second lapse before we know. It would be much better if we were alerted two or three minutes before a device is about to fail, so we can dispatch a field engineer and avoid network downtime. I would like to see a feature that allows you to access the devices directly from Prime's monitoring tab. That would make work easier for us."

"The solution is not easy to configure."

"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."

"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 is not a very flexible product."

"The solution needs to improve it's user interface to make it more modern and stylish. They need to design proper menu positions, features, etc. Right now the layout is complicated."

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

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

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

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

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

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."

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

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

"I would rate the pricing of Cisco Prime a seven out of ten."

"The cost is quite high."

"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."

"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."

"The price is very expensive."

"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."

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

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