We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and HashiCorp Terraform 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."It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"It is a comprehensive security solution that not only controls access to enterprise resources but also tracks and prevents unauthorized access, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and preventing potential data loss scenarios."
"The product has eased the deployment of Microsoft apps to the devices. We can manage it properly. We can control it and push the updates. Another company helped us with the deployment. However, we can do it internally."
"In terms of technical support, you will get an immediate response."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"With BMC, we even configured applications, like IE or things that were Java-related. When we scheduled the jobs, it worked fine. It saved us time and there was no need for resources to monitor them."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"Scalability is good."
"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."
"The feature "Terraform Plan" is the most valuable in HashiCorp Terraform as it allows us to see the differences between the current infrastructure and the one we are about to deploy, keeping things safe. Additionally, we appreciate the use of the modules as it helps in making the application scalable."
"Can be used across multiple cloud providers and multiple platforms."
"It allows for the abstraction of the work away from the developer into automated processes."
"We frequently need to create and replicate infrastructure from various environments like dev and QA. The QA resources need to be identical to those in the dev environment. With a Terraform script, we can replicate the same 50 in the dev environment to the testing environment. This is tedious to do manually, and Terraform speeds up the process."
"The state backend, automated describe functionality, modular structures, and variablization using templates are most valuable."
"With Terraform, you don't need to understand the console of your cloud providers. You only need to understand how Terraform works, and you manage your infrastructure tools in Terraform."
"I like the function that shows me a preview of what is happening in the infrastructure."
"The solution helps us save a lot of costs."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"The UI also needs improvements because it is complex for end-users. We have had feedback from a few users in our organization who found the UI is not feasible for tracking and analyzing all the processes and monitoring all the devices."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"An issue we have run into with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that we cannot patch third-party products like Adobe and Chrome with it."
"Technical support is not that great."
"The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"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."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"The solution is complex when we use it for a loop. This is a problem, not because of the language itself, but because of how the infrastructure generally works. It's different from Python."
"Terraform should also support YAML language, which is more user-friendly than HCL. They should also add a GUI, so you don't need to memorize all the commands. A GUI would enable us to do everything with a click of a button."
"HashiCorp Terraform could improve the integration with the VCloud Director. When we manage the VCloud Director we end up wasting our time when creating virtual machines. HashiCorp Terraform knows about these issues and I think there might be a workaround but they should incorporate the fix in an upcoming release."
"On occasion, I have noticed a number of bugs in this solution that have needed to be fixed."
"Automation is needed to import everything at once from a manual environment or by a specific resource group."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"They have added a feature that helps us to import existing resources to our workspace, but if they can help us to create the code for the import, as well, then it would be a great addition."
"The state locking functionality can be improved. In certain situations, we have to force-unlock the state, which sometimes does not work. When that happens, we have to manually go to the state backend and remove that particular state, which is kind of a cumbersome process. It should also have more functions, more expressions, and support for more products."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Terraform 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 HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Spring Cloud. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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