BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs NetBrain comparison

BMC and NetBrain are both solutions in the Network Automation category. BMC is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.6, while NetBrain is ranked #7. BMC holds a 2.1% mindshare in NA, compared to NetBrain’s 12.3% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of NetBrain users who would recommend it.

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation and NetBrain based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC TrueSight Network Autom...

Ranking in Network Automation

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Configuration Management (16th)

NetBrain

Ranking in Network Automation

7th

Average Rating

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Troubleshooting (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Network Automation category, the mindshare of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is 2.1%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetBrain is 12.3%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Automation

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Amol Kotwal

Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oct 19, 2022

Time saving, helpful technical support, with long term results

The primary use case is for whatever the network engineer task does manually, switching routers and pushing configuration onto those devices, then doing the OS upgrade. If you do not have the product, then you will do all those items manually, which is time-consuming. That is where the network…

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Deborah Gamelin

Vice President at Asset Track for Cloud, LLC

Jan 14, 2022

Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility

In my organization, we had 130,000 network devices that needed to be brought into the solution and mapped. NetBrain can handle the scale but the engineers that manage those devices have to go in and update all of them to allow NetBrain permission to poll them. It can get a little stressful for everybody when you're trying to roll out new stuff when you've got other issues that have to be addressed with other devices. In some cases, our devices had no automation at all. One example is the Cisco 3650. Right now, if you went through the inventory list, you see that we have different versions running. Some are on one version, whereas others are on another version. The problem with upgrading them is that they need to be done overnight because we don't want to disrupt any network traffic during business hours. Consequently, it could take us years to upgrade the versions before we can even get them onto these new tools. This may be an internal issue but it's a big one when you have a lot of devices. Even if you had 10,000 devices, it's still an issue. You have to consider the compatibility of the device against the tool, and being able to use certain commands to upgrade it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Depending on who's looking at the data, they need to configure that data in different ways, and the dashboards help us to do that better than what was previously available."

"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."

"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."

"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."

"It has the best automation features."

"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."

"It is helpful if you schedule daily or weekly archiving for your config groups. Then, you can go by what are in those configuration groups, before and after, if you make changes. So, configuration management is really helpful in network management."

"The backup and restore configurations are really helpful for a number of network devices, as you can automate them, then know what changes have been done, who made the changes, etc. So, it's quite helpful in the network management area."

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"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."

"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."

"Enables maps to be drawn out."

"NetBrain is a very simple tool."

"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."

Cons

"I would like to see more device supported features, mostly on the new brands and models coming in. For any new version or model, it should be supported by the tool, especially the newest versions. For example, the newest devices, like Aruba Wireless, and routers need support from the tool."

"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."

"I'd like to be able to get more devices into compliance with standards, but that means running additional rule sets and that takes time."

"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."

"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."

"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."

"They need to have a single sign-on."

"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."

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"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."

"The solution could integrate more automation."

"It would be nice if the setup was a little simpler. Also, if the solution could provide more training materials for new people coming into our company so they can quickly learn how to use the functionalities."

"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."

"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is more costly than the other competitors."

"The solution is worth the price."

"There's a fee for the licenses themselves, per contract, and then we have a yearly licensing fee that's many thousands of dollars. But that's not just for TrueSight, that's also for support for ITSM, Atrium Orchestrator, BBNA, and other BMC tools in the environment."

"The product is expensive, but less expensive than some of the competition and worth the price."

"Licensing is based on a per-device basis, which means that it can get very expensive if you have a large number of devices."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

22%

Comms Service Provider

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Network Automation?

The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Network Automation?

The product is expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Network Automation?

The solution could have cheap pricing along with a simple deployment process.

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August 2024

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Also Known As

BMC TrueSight Automation for Networks, TrueSight Automation for Networks, TrueSight Network Automation, BladeLogic Network Automation

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Overview

Network automation and management software reduces network outages and downtime by automating configuration, change and compliance processes. Organizations depend on high performance across their network to keep the business running at peak efficiency but new security threats make it hard for network administrators to keep pace with the demands for new services and safeguard the health of the network.

Managing today’s networks with yesterday’s manual processes is no longer a viable solution. NetBrain’s network automation platform provides actionable insights into your network to help you make better and faster decisions - particularly when you’re troubleshooting, securing, and making changes to the network.

Sample Customers

SAP

CompuCon, TD Ameritrade, Move Inc.

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