We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Red Hat Satellite 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."The technical support of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The solution appears to be stable and scalable."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"Compliance is also huge... By tying it to Atrium Orchestrator, our workflow tool, we'll be able to have a closed loop where we identify a compliance issue, cut CRs, get them approved, and then be able to execute these CRs and more seamlessly fix these issues on the fly."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
"The documentation could be better."
"The dashboard of Satellite is not encouraging. It does not adequately showcase all the functionality it offers."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly."
"I would like to see the scalability, user interface, and reporting features improved and for the solution to be simplified. Instead of having complex engineering, it should be simple for the user."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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