FortiGate vs SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

• Simple but complete GUI allows for easy management.
• Intuitive CLI allows experienced CLI users from other platforms to come up to speed quickly.
• Unit comes out of the box with a feature rich logging capability, FortiAnalyzer brings it to the next level and is very easy to install.
• Licensing is easy to understand, The device is a single line item and support has 2 options 8x5 and 24x7.

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• The details of the traffic are especially good if it shows statistics in real time. It is very important to analyze it at the same time
• It lets you know who is watching within the network so it is ideal for a thorough monitoring of resources
• It has an intuitive interface of easy operation that allows the operation of the same without problems

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• Non-disruptive upgrades on standalone boxes. Not sure if the technology would allow it but it would be great to have.
• Subscription signatures auto-deployment could affect production traffic. In some circumstances letting Fortigate accept subscription signatures may cause the device to drop traffic

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• The UI can be a bit clunky -- but that's compared to the other products in the Orion suite. Most vendor tools are atrocious!
• NTA data is a beast. Not running SQL 2016 with support for in-memory OLTP? You can't use the latest version (4.6)
• If you are running an environment of any size, you will need separate instances of SQL *or* a hefty server to support a shared SQL instance

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• The sales team recommended the wrong product for us initially. It was unable to keep up with the traffic load at our location, even with everything disabled. They resolved the issue by finding the appropriate device for us and giving us a steep discount due to the previous issues.
• Since switching to the appropriate hardware we have had an increased in availability. No longer experiencing outages or slowdowns due to insufficient equipment,

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• SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer has saved me more than once in my career. I am so pleased to be able to drill down into the details of the traffic flows. Bad actors in the network tend to stand out in the traffic capture graphs.
• SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer has allowed my team to plan for the future; you get a great view of how much data you push in an hour, a day, a week, or a month. We have a very focused service to the community that needs to be up all the time and perform without issue. I have leveraged many SolarWinds products to get the network and resources fine-tuned to meet the needs of this wonderful environment.
• The overall business has improved due to the implementation and management of great monitoring and reporting tools such as SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer. Each year the IT team makes adjustments and improvements to the environment. We use to have to react; we are much more proactive now and know when there is a problem in the environment before the end-users.

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