We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and SolarWinds Network Automation Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"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."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"The Organizations feature, where I can give clear silos and hand them over to different teams, that's amazing; everybody says that it's their own Tower. It's like they have their own Tower out there."
"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"There are so many models that I don't have to create one."
"Ansible is agentless. So, we don't need to set up any agent into the computer we are interacting with. The only prerequisite is that the host with which we are going to interact must have the Python interpreter installed on it. We can connect to a host and do our configuration by using Ansible."
"One of the most valuable features is that Ansible is agentless. It does not have dependencies, other than Python, which is very generic in terms of dependencies for all systems and for any environment. Being agentless, Ansible is very convenient for everything."
"The solution offers so many great resources, it makes them a powerhouse in the market."
"The installation is easy."
"In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"It needs better documentation."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"We did not like SolarWinds because it was not able to communicate between UPSA and our accounting system. They should have better integration."
"The price could be a bit lower."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews while SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is ranked 13th in Network Automation. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is rated 5.6. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Automation Manager writes "Threat detection failures, poor technical support, and expensive". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune, whereas SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is most compared with NetBrain.
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