We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Red Hat Satellite 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."Stable solution at a good price."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The dashboards, the security, and the customization capabilities work very well for us."
"The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"Compliance is also huge... By tying it to Atrium Orchestrator, our workflow tool, we'll be able to have a closed loop where we identify a compliance issue, cut CRs, get them approved, and then be able to execute these CRs and more seamlessly fix these issues on the fly."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"Areas for improvement in Intune include expanding support beyond Samsung devices to accommodate other Android manufacturers like Redmi and Motorola."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"The pricing could be improved."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
"The technical support could be improved."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"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 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."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite 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 Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and vCenter Configuration Manager. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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