We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Network Automation and Cisco DNA Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has the best automation features."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"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 compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"BMC is an excellent configuration manager. It allows you to configure your network easily and get the most out of it."
"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."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"The solution helps with the management and orchestration of campaigns. It helps with visibility and analytics. I also like its SDA configuration."
"We can monitor all devices and get the required information using the product."
"I like that we can easily configure any new hardware. It's also easy to deploy and easy to troubleshoot."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"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."
"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."
"They need to have a single sign-on."
"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."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"I would like to see more device supported features, mostly on the new brands and models coming in. For any new version or model, it should be supported by the tool, especially the newest versions. For example, the newest devices, like Aruba Wireless, and routers need support from the tool."
"The weaknesses primarily involve pricing and the ongoing need for increased bandwidth and data throughput."
"What could be improved is the licensing cost of Cisco DNA Center. It's a little bit expensive."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"The solution can be quite pricey."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"The product has many features that do not work properly."
"The product doesn’t have good monitoring capabilities."
"Requires more focus on the digital side of things."
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BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 6th in Network Automation with 11 reviews while Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews. BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.6, while Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8. 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 Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, whereas Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Huawei eSight. See our BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs. Cisco DNA Center report.
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