We performed a comparison between Red Hat Satellite and SUSE Manager 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."Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"The solution is stable."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"There is a single pane of glass for user access and a single sign-on facility for the user. If you have already logged in to Microsoft Azure or on-premises, you can redirect directly to Microsoft Endpoint Manager, monitor all your security threats, and analyze the data associated with the application in a single, unified way."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to process patching and updates completely offline without an internet connection."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"Technical support has been good."
"When it comes to managing both Red Hat and SUSE environments, it provides the support for live patching, which is something I really, really appreciate."
"The setup is straightforward."
"SUSE Manager is the best solution for maintaining the Linux environment"
"SUSE Manager helps to optimize operations at a reduced cost."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"Onboarding of endpoint devices is not straightforward. The onboarding process was a little heavier than I thought it would be. That's the key improvement area. Obviously, the more control you have over the devices, the better it is."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see some kind of analytics report."
"Regarding mobile devices, Intune is good, but there are other services that I would say are ahead of Intune from an administration and reporting point of view."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"The dashboard of Satellite is not encouraging. It does not adequately showcase all the functionality it offers."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"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."
"Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"We sometimes have server issues and need to restart the service."
"I really would like to have a broader library of VCP's or playbooks that I can deploy."
"The initial stage is a bit complex, but after that, everything runs seamlessly."
"It can be complex and difficult for users who are new to Linux and don't have any technical expertise."
Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews while SUSE Manager is ranked 13th in Configuration Management with 4 reviews. Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2, while SUSE Manager is rated 9.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Manager writes "Easy to deploy, offers embedded monitoring, and is very stable". Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager, BigFix and Chef, whereas SUSE Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform. See our Red Hat Satellite vs. SUSE Manager report.
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