We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"If the product works, remote access will be a benefit. To this point we have not had reason to have confidence in achieving that access."
"With on-premises Active Directory, the main challenge was that we had no control when a user was working from home. We didn't know what exactly a user was doing and whether the AV was up to date or not. Intune provides better control of their machines."
"It is quite policy-enabled, so you can build pretty much any policy to manage remote endpoints."
"Easy to use."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"It is very easy to use. It has a very easy interface."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"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."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"Technical support is good."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"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 most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"I like the inventory management. It's a very nice, simple, concise way to keep all that data together. And the API allows us to use it even for things that are not Ansible."
"Ansible provides great reliability when coupled with a versioning system (git). It helps providing predictability to the network by knowing exactly what's being pushed after validating it in production."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"Microsoft Intune's support for Mac devices is lacking and could be improved."
"We only have major classifications for iOS and Android, but there are different brands that have different cycles of updates. If they can fine-tune it to make it more brand-specific, that would be even better."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"We would like to see this solution handle more multitasking."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"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."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"It should support more integration with different products."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"I have seen indications that the documentation needs improvement. They are providing a "How to Improve Your Documentation" presentation at this conference."
"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."
"It needs better documentation."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. 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 Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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