We performed a comparison between NetBrain and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."NetBrain is a very simple tool."
"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."
"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."
"Enables maps to be drawn out."
"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don’t need an agent for it to work."
"The reason I like Ansible is, first, the coding of it is very straightforward, it's very human-readable. I'm also on a contract, and I can clearly iterate and bring people up to speed very quickly on writing a Playbook compared with writing up a Puppet manifest or a Salt script."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"The solution could integrate more automation."
"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."
"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."
"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."
"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."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"It needs better documentation."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"I have seen indications that the documentation needs improvement. They are providing a "How to Improve Your Documentation" presentation at this conference."
"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."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
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NetBrain is ranked 5th in Network Automation while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews. NetBrain is rated 7.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetBrain writes "Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility". 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". NetBrain is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager, ScienceLogic and Forward Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune.
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