ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer vs. SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)

We rely on the application to monitor the bandwidth to know user behavior. It makes the process of keeping your system and information safe super simple and streamlined. It supports multiple firewalls that include Check Point, Cisco, Cyberoam, Fortinet, Sense, Juniper, Huawei, Sophos, and WatchGuard. It helps us to gain insight into security threats and traffic.

Incentivized

Some of equipment does not support correct monitoring of particular errors via standard SNMP requests (example - Juniper SRX licenses expiration). In this case getting and analyzing syslogs as well as creating event-based alerts/notifications brings great relief of a network administrator life! The second case - is a simple analyzing firewall log events as SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA) can keep logs for a longer time than an equipment built-in tool.

Incentivized

• Allowed upper management to track VPN usage when employees were not on site and working.
• Gave me real time monitoring of internet usage
• alerted me to potential problems
• Allowed me to track web usage real time

• Event based custom alarms
• Useful search filters
• Real-time streaming

Incentivized

• UI can be improved, not very intuitive.
• Search features can be improved too, I needed to export an excel file to perform an advanced search.
• Automatic direct updates would be great.

• Network management
• Server infrastructure management

Incentivized

It is fast to
download the test software and implement. It takes some sometime to understand the
ways you have to on board your firewalls into it. It is nice to buy and just
activate the product that you have already installed. Maybe some wizards could
be improved in order to accelerate these tasks.

You’ll be able to discover new devices as well as manage via a single interface. For a network person that may be less experienced with tech setups, this is a handy feature to have. This can be a great option for protection, particularly if you already have other elements of the UniFi system installed.

Incentivized

Based on my personal experience SolorWinds Log Analyzer is the best product on the market. Splunk Enterprise is the other system we use for monitoring but it's more complicated and requires extra skills Moreover Solarwinds Support Team response fast to any issues

Incentivized

• Firewall Analyzer has definitely freed up a lot of IT's time, by congregating logs and displaying them in a more useful, visual way.
• The cost for licenses and proactive alerting, compared to the man-hours spent reactively through data, paid for itself in a few months.
• There was no negative impact to users, and only some to IT staff who had to train on the software, which mostly consisted of videos and playing around with the software.

Incentivized

• Decrease issue reaction time
• Simplify an issue root cause reporting

Incentivized