We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Stability is good within the product."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's a scalable product."
"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."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I like the rapid deployment feature. I also like that it's easy to troubleshoot. FortiManager is amazing because we can have a centralized policy. All our devices are integrated, and we can also engage in troubleshooting. We can use it for different deployments. One fantastic feature is the ability to create a version and deploy it immediately."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
DX Spectrum is ranked 4th in Network Management Applications with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". 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". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec. See our DX Spectrum vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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