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Am I the only person who likes this new XG product?

ChavousCamp

Wow - reading the comments here...... sounds like I'm the only one outside of Sophos Corporate who likes this product.

And no - I'm not a Sophos employee _OR_ a Sophos plant.

In fact, I came to the firewalls grudgingly through their other products.  I am (or was) a Watchguard/pfSense/Cisco/Several Others kind of guy. I started with SGN (encryption) and SMC (the server-based mobile control) and then started looking at the firewalls because of a few integrated features.  I decided to go through the engineer cert training for both UTM and XG.  In fact, I think I went through the XG training the day - or the day after - the training itself was released.

After all that - I don't see why everyone is so down on this product.

Sophos has been exceeding clear on the fact that 1) NO SG is not going away any time soon. 2) if you like your SG or CR product, you can KEEP your SG/CR product and 3) YES there are missing features, expect new ones soon.

Are there limitations and weaknesses - YES. It's a VERSION 1 product! (they can call it version 15 all they want.  It's a v1 product)

Is it still a pretty cool damned product? YES. 

Will it improve drastically? Likely, YES.

Seriously guys - give it a few months.  It is brand new, needs a few tweaks, and change always sucks - but the compelling new features they've put in - heartbeat, cloud management, etc - are, or are going to be, excellent.

As of now, our NFR of the XG230 is happily running down in our server room, humming away, and acting as our primary gateway to the internet.  Working like champ so far. 



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    Finally!! I was debating on writing something similar (To the original posters points), but figured I'd get hammered on. I mean, like you said, is it missing a few things? You bet. But at the same time, Sophos is not forcing anyone to migrate to SFOS. If you don't like it then don't use it till it gets a little mature. There definitley needs to be some feature parity with UTM 9 and the new SFOS, but like you said, that will come and I'm confident it will come soon. We have about 50+ UTMs we manage across the area and have even upgraded a handfull to SFOS that didn't have much config on them to where it was easy to just redo some of the rules by hand.

    I'm not de-valuing anyones opinion, and everyone has their right to an opinion, but some of the stuff on here is just crazy. I think SFOS is a great product out of the gates and will only get better. Its never easy to change with something you've been used to for yours, I get that, but I'm the type that likes change and new things and I think once the UI gets cleaned up a little (Definitely feel like some of the duplicated areas could go away (i.e being able to configure the wireless in multiple locations makes it confusing, just make 1 spot for wifi) and that might make some of the menus less overwhelming at first look.

    Alot of what I'm seeing as frustration is people using this for home use.  I can't share that experience as we only buy the actual appliances in production environments and are fortunate enough to have access to support.  That does seem like a bummer if you have hardware you've used or just got that isn't x64 and can't load it.


    Anyway, just my 2 cents. I'm excited for the future of SFOS and hopefully this forum will start to turn to a valuable place for other users to bounce information off each other who either don't have access to support or just want to get a few ideas from other users.

    Thanks

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    Finally!! I was debating on writing something similar (To the original posters points), but figured I'd get hammered on. I mean, like you said, is it missing a few things? You bet. But at the same time, Sophos is not forcing anyone to migrate to SFOS. If you don't like it then don't use it till it gets a little mature. There definitley needs to be some feature parity with UTM 9 and the new SFOS, but like you said, that will come and I'm confident it will come soon. We have about 50+ UTMs we manage across the area and have even upgraded a handfull to SFOS that didn't have much config on them to where it was easy to just redo some of the rules by hand.

    I'm not de-valuing anyones opinion, and everyone has their right to an opinion, but some of the stuff on here is just crazy. I think SFOS is a great product out of the gates and will only get better. Its never easy to change with something you've been used to for yours, I get that, but I'm the type that likes change and new things and I think once the UI gets cleaned up a little (Definitely feel like some of the duplicated areas could go away (i.e being able to configure the wireless in multiple locations makes it confusing, just make 1 spot for wifi) and that might make some of the menus less overwhelming at first look.

    Alot of what I'm seeing as frustration is people using this for home use.  I can't share that experience as we only buy the actual appliances in production environments and are fortunate enough to have access to support.  That does seem like a bummer if you have hardware you've used or just got that isn't x64 and can't load it.


    Anyway, just my 2 cents. I'm excited for the future of SFOS and hopefully this forum will start to turn to a valuable place for other users to bounce information off each other who either don't have access to support or just want to get a few ideas from other users.

    Thanks

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