User Reviews of BMC TrueSight Server Automation & Chef

Updated March 2024

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BMC TrueSight Server Automation review

JonathanShilling
JonathanShilling
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Able to access server info and file systems directly through TSSA but system can...
Resource management on the base servers could be improved. We're using a site that's supposed to cover all of our affiliates. I don't know what is causing the problem but we've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching. I find the solution to be rather cumbersome. It's supposed to...
Chef review

Arun S .
Arun S .
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve
Chef can be scaled as needed. The Chef server itself can scale but it depends on the available resources. You can upgrade specific resources to meet the demand. Similarly, with clients, you can add as many clients as you need. Again, this depends on the server resources. If the server has enough resources, it can handle the number of...

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