We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation and NetBrain based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."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."
"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"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 network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."
"It has the best automation features."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"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."
"NetBrain is a very simple tool."
"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."
"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."
"Enables maps to be drawn out."
"This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."
"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."
"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."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"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."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"They need to have a single sign-on."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"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."
"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."
"It would be nice if the setup was a little simpler. Also, if the solution could provide more training materials for new people coming into our company so they can quickly learn how to use the functionalities."
"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."
"The solution could integrate more automation."
"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."
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BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 7th in Network Automation with 10 reviews while NetBrain is ranked 5th in Network Automation with 6 reviews. BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8, while NetBrain is rated 7.2. 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 NetBrain writes "Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility". BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, VMware NSX and OpenText Network Automation, whereas NetBrain is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager and Forward Enterprise.
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