We performed a comparison between OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"We can manage and standardize security across your environment, identify problems, receive alerts, and so on. That's its purpose, and that's also why it's so good."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"Managing our inventory is a big pain point. Right now, we have Satellite, but we can tie it in with Satellite, so we can actually manage things and automate the entire deployment stack, instead of trying to grab things from tickets, then generating Kickstart, and using that to get things in Satellite. That doesn't work well. We can do the whole deployment stack using the inventory share between Tower and Satellite."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"Being a game-changer in configuration management software is what has made Ansible so popular and widespread. Much of IT is based on SSH direct connectivity with a need for running infrastructure in an agentless way, and that has been a big plus. SSH has become a great security standard for managing servers. The whole thing has really become an out-of-the-box solution for managing a Unix estate."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"It has an easy-to-use interface. It is REST API driven, and it integrates with Active Directory. It provides the ability to grant permissions to other users who would not necessarily have those permissions via the GUI so that they could run other people's jobs. For example, you could have the Oracle team grant permissions to the Linux team so that they can use each of those playbooks or each other's code. It is called shift-left."
"The automation manager is very good."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"Having a dedicated configuration server that assists in modifying the configuration service, and creating personalized structures, interfaces, and web services could enhance usability."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"It can use some more credential types. I've found that when I go looking for a certain credential type, such as private keys, they're not really there."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"The governance features could be improved."
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OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 21st in Configuration Management while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management writes "It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally. The upgrade cycle is very long". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Quest KACE Systems Management and BigFix, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation.
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