Stonebranch Stability

Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services

The Universal Controller is very capable, very stable. We really haven't had any problems, stability-wise, with the Controllers. We've been very happy with the resiliency of this solution. We really don't have problems with Stonebranch. Once we get agents in place and configured, they're stable. Our Stonebranch Universal Controller runs. It is very stable. 

Occasionally, we have an agent that doesn't come back up after OS patching. That doesn't happen very often. But everything is getting patched on a monthly cycle on the analytics side when the repos come out and get pushed out from satellite. But that issue is so infrequent that we don't make a whole lot of noise about. That's probably the most common issue, though: After patching, every once in a while we have an agent that will hang on the way back up. It's really just a restart of the agent and it comes back up. But that might be one thing that could be improved.

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Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate

Stonebranch Universal Automation Center is stable. Since we went live we have not seen any problems. If it is configured incorrectly it can be unstable, but if it is configured well it has high availability.

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Siddharth Matalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The stability is good. I'd rate it eight out of ten. 

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DP
Consulting Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The stability of the agents is wonderful; the Controller, again, needs a little beef.

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MA
Senior Technical Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The stability has been pretty good. It's been the best out of all the solutions that I've had to deal with.

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Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate

Stonebranch is stable, and the high-availability mode works well.

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BL
Sr. System Programmer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of resiliency, we run the high-availability, so I have two controllers, one in passive and one primary-active. We switch every month for patching, and the passive one takes over without an issue. 

With our database patching, we can see when that stops and when the controller goes into a pause. But less than 15 seconds later, we're back up and running again. There are no job failures associated. It takes off right away. In the patching world, we've seen a significant improvement.

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Sushil-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at Mphasis

Its quite stable and all applications hosted on Stonebranch server runs without any issue.

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FB
Application and Database Administrator at Blue Bird Corp

It's rock-solid.

The resiliency is very good. It is very solid. If the server shuts down, it will do its best to try and make up what it can, depending on how you have configured it. But it does a really good job of trying to recover gracefully. 

For example, a while back we had a Unix server go down and it was going down because of a bad connection with something that was hosted on another box. Stonebranch was aware of the problems that we were having even finishing. Once we got all the problems cleared, instead of it trying to continue running all 800 jobs that had been started but never finished, it only tried to rerun the last job, which I thought was a really nice solution. We didn't have 800 instances of the same job trying to be rerun.

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reviewer948099 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
DF
Application Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It's reasonably stable and there are no complaints.

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MB
Systems Programmer II at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very resilient. You have multiple agents and you have High Availability, so we're able to do maintenance to one server without affecting its availability.

It's been rock-solid for us.

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CS
Technology Analyst at Nike

I see it as a stable tool so far.

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RP
Senior DevOps Engineer at ING

solution in general stable however last OMS updates are blurring out this opinion.

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reviewer948096 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

In some of the earlier releases (5 and prior). Nothing in newer releases.

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reviewer951501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product is very stable. When problems occurred, they were due to the environment and not the product itself.

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RO
Application Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Stability of UAC is good. When problems do arise, they can be quickly solved most times, so downtime is minimal. We are running a high-availability environment.

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reviewer948108 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Yes, it happens from time to time that UAC is not available, we work with the Stonebranch support team when it happens, it's not 100% bulletproof. 

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reviewer948102 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Sometimes it fails.

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reviewer958350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 501-1,000 employees

No issues with the stability of UAC, it has really never been a problem for us.

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reviewer958344 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It runs very stable.

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reviewer948087 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm
HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The stability of the solution is very reasonable. It's reliable. We haven't found that there are bugs or glitches. We haven't dealt with it crashing or freezing. It's been good.

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