We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The product is easy to use and manage."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"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 initial setup was straightforward."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"It's user-friendly."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"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."
"The solution has some bugs."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"This is a relatively expensive product."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is ranked 16th in Network Management Applications with 1 review. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper writes "Very user-friendly and stable". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Skybox Security Suite, whereas SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper is most compared with Cisco DNA Center and Aruba Airwave.
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