We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and SaltStack 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."The initial setup is not complex."
"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"For our office workers who are not based in Norway, when we order the PC, we can do some of the settings for them. These are standardized settings. We can set them up exactly as they are in Norway so that they're the same."
"It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"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."
"Scalability is good."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"Technical support is good."
"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."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Web UI."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"It is difficult to set up."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. 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 SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and AWS Systems Manager, whereas SaltStack is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and Automic Workload Automation. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. SaltStack report.
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