We performed a comparison between Puppet Enterprise and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."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."
"The synchronization of Intune with other Microsoft solutions is a valuable feature."
"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"The product has eased the deployment of Microsoft apps to the devices. We can manage it properly. We can control it and push the updates. Another company helped us with the deployment. However, we can do it internally."
"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"The versatility is great."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"The scanning features have proven to be highly valuable, particularly due to the comprehensive information they provide."
"Its main functionality is highly beneficial as it centralizes the management of configuration items across the network."
"The configuration compliance aspect of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager allows for easy comparison of configuration settings across branches, ensuring adherence to security guidelines and best practices. Automation capabilities have greatly impacted workflows, enabling tasks such as configuration backups, template deployment, and firmware upgrades to be automated, thereby streamlining processes and saving time. Compliance reporting features provide valuable insights into network compliance, offering pre-built security audit reports and customizable options to meet specific requirements."
"What's nice with NCM is you can set up policies that you can then check against the configs to ensure that your device configs adhere to a baseline or standard that you've set in place."
"The most valuable features the solution offers are compliance, reliability, and information about reliability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The feature that I really enjoy is the ability to script changes across all of your devices."
"We push all our configurations to the servers with ease and the logs capture almost all the transactions needed for an internal audit."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"The third-party plugins available in the solution could improve. I have received some issues with the templates."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"Releasing a product compatible with operating systems other than Windows would be advantageous."
"When we run the SolarWinds NCM jobs at the cellular line, it runs in the morning. They're just not finishing. We're getting false processing."
"The Network Configuration Manager needs to improve the access control list compliance."
"The interface of solar winds could be improved."
"I would like to see more integration tools. Something like dialysis, for example."
"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."
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Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Network configuration is done well; great pricing". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenText Network Node Manager i and VMware NSX.
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