We performed a comparison between Infoblox NetMRI [EOL] 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."Scalable solution for tracking and syncing through the Infoblox grid."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."
"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"The solution can scale."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"Lacks network overview for the entire connected network."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"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."
"We are not using the Dashboard a lot because we have higher expectations from it. The default Dashboard from Tower doesn't give that much information. We really want to get down into more than if the job succeeded or what was the percentage of success. We want to get down to task-level success. If, in a job, there are ten tasks, we want to see this task was a success, and this was not, and how many were not. That's the kind of granularity we are looking for, that Tower does not give right now."
"It needs better documentation."
"If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this."
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Infoblox NetMRI [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Automation while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews. Infoblox NetMRI [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Infoblox NetMRI [EOL] writes "Has the ability to track and sync through the grid". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". Infoblox NetMRI [EOL] is most compared with , 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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