We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation and BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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."Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"The solution is easy to use, simple to understand for those new to using it, and combined with the other Microsoft products it makes for an overall good package."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"The ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"In terms of technical support, you will get an immediate response."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"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."
"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."
"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"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 has the best automation features."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."
"Scalability is good."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"The solution is stable."
"Technical support is good."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"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."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"Due to the abundance of features, there's a lot to organize, which makes managing and setting up the solution challenging. The setup is immense, and it would be good to see improvement in this area."
"The configuration and pricing can be improved."
"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."
"The installation could be improved to be simplified."
"I'd like to be able to get more devices into compliance with standards, but that means running additional rule sets and that takes time."
"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."
"They need to have a single sign-on."
"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."
"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."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"We would like to see this solution handle more multitasking."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
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BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 18th in Configuration Management with 10 reviews while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8, while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Network Automation writes "Helps with patching, OS upgrade, and security vulnerability management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, VMware NSX and OpenText Network Automation, whereas BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform. See our BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs. BMC TrueSight Server Automation report.
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