We performed a comparison between BlueCat Gateway and BMC TrueSight Network Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We found IP and Network Discovery the most valuable features of BlueCat Gateway. Our team found it very easy to build, verify, and validate APIs in BlueCat Gateway, mainly if the users have a background in development and APIs. Our team found that BlueCat Gateway answers our needs well."
"The ability to develop a kiosk-like solution for in-person assistance is crucial."
"It has the best automation features."
"This product has helped us because we can now do many tasks at once. Rather than copy one file to one device, we can do an entire group at one time."
"It is helpful if you schedule daily or weekly archiving for your config groups. Then, you can go by what are in those configuration groups, before and after, if you make changes. So, configuration management is really helpful in network management."
"Depending on who's looking at the data, they need to configure that data in different ways, and the dashboards help us to do that better than what was previously available."
"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"My most significant concern is that the documentation has problems."
"One area for improvement in BlueCat Gateway is the time it takes to fill in the dropdown in the UI of the solution because the speed with which the data loads isn't that fast. It would be better if you didn't have to wait for old items to load before seeing the first data."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."
"I would like to see more device supported features, mostly on the new brands and models coming in. For any new version or model, it should be supported by the tool, especially the newest versions. For example, the newest devices, like Aruba Wireless, and routers need support from the tool."
"It is tedious to scale the solution."
"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."
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BlueCat Gateway is ranked 9th in Network Automation with 2 reviews while BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 7th in Network Automation with 10 reviews. BlueCat Gateway is rated 9.0, while BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BlueCat Gateway writes "Simple to use, straightforward to deploy, and provides good support and documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Network Automation writes "Helps with patching, OS upgrade, and security vulnerability management". BlueCat Gateway is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, VMware NSX and OpenText Network Automation. See our BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs. BlueCat Gateway report.
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