We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If you need only to load a specific profile and you don't have deep security functionalities, et cetera, Intune is very nice and good."
"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"With BMC, we even configured applications, like IE or things that were Java-related. When we scheduled the jobs, it worked fine. It saved us time and there was no need for resources to monitor them."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"The Organizations feature, where I can give clear silos and hand them over to different teams, that's amazing; everybody says that it's their own Tower. It's like they have their own Tower out there."
"It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"Technical support is not that great."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"We only have major classifications for iOS and Android, but there are different brands that have different cycles of updates. If they can fine-tune it to make it more brand-specific, that would be even better."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching."
"We are not using the Dashboard a lot because we have higher expectations from it. The default Dashboard from Tower doesn't give that much information. We really want to get down into more than if the job succeeded or what was the percentage of success. We want to get down to task-level success. If, in a job, there are ten tasks, we want to see this task was a success, and this was not, and how many were not. That's the kind of granularity we are looking for, that Tower does not give right now."
"The support could be better."
"If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this."
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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