We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"It is very versatile in terms of analytics."
"The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"The most valuable features of the solution are all of its security features...It is a highly scalable solution."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"The most valuable features of Cisco DNA Center are wireless assurance and visibility."
"Ansible Galaxy is helpful for roles and Git Submodules: No dependency in managing playbooks. Also, fact caching in redis for host/role grp information speeds up execution. Finally, variable management is easy."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"The task failure reporting or provisioning failure reporting could be a little bit better in the UI, with more information given to the user."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"When it comes to deploying wireless fields, integrating defaults into the DNS interface can be challenging."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"There are some software problems from version to version. It takes a long time for DNA Center to recognize the video and control access devices."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"What I would like to see is a refined Dashboard to see, when I log in: Here are all my jobs, here are how many times they've executed; some kind graphical stitching-together of the workflows and jobs, and how they're connected. Also, those "failed hosts," what does that mean? We have a problem, a failed host can be anything. Is SSH the reason it failed? Is the job template why it failed? It doesn't really distinguish that."
"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 solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
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Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and NetBrain, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Automic Workload Automation. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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