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 initial setup is not complex."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"With on-premises Active Directory, the main challenge was that we had no control when a user was working from home. We didn't know what exactly a user was doing and whether the AV was up to date or not. Intune provides better control of their machines."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"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."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"Previously, we were using one server to update from a different repository over the HTTP. We had to manually manage the updates on the repository server. Satellite made the process easier."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"Having a dedicated configuration server that assists in modifying the configuration service, and creating personalized structures, interfaces, and web services could enhance usability."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"It should basically include a complete slew of system management and monitoring tools such as Nagios. It should be a single pane of glass that gives us a complete solution. It is a good solution, but it is missing a few important things. We're using Capsule for DMVs on other secured zones. Capsule is a part of Satellite to be a proxy of sorts."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"The documentation could be better."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
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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 22 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 "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". 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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