We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and SUSE Manager 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 solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"Intune's feature that I have found most valuable is its auto-pilot feature."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"RBAC is great around Organizations and I can use that backend as our lab. Ingesting stuff into the JSON logs, into any sort of logging collector; it works with Splunk and there are other collectors as well. It supports Sumo and that helps, I can go create reports in Sumo Logic. Workflows are an interesting feature. I can collect a lot of templates and create a workflow out of them."
"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"I like being able to control multiple systems and push out updates quickly with just a couple of clicks of a button and commands. I like the automation because it is a time saver."
"When it comes to managing both Red Hat and SUSE environments, it provides the support for live patching, which is something I really, really appreciate."
"SUSE Manager is the best solution for maintaining the Linux environment"
"SUSE Manager helps to optimize operations at a reduced cost."
"The setup is straightforward."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"There are a lot of small use cases where we realized that some technical solution was missing in Microsoft in comparison to other products. For example, it lacks something similar to sensing or location-based rules and configurations."
"There can be delays in the deployment of new policies."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2."
"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."
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"It can be complex and difficult for users who are new to Linux and don't have any technical expertise."
"We sometimes have server issues and need to restart the service."
"I really would like to have a broader library of VCP's or playbooks that I can deploy."
"The initial stage is a bit complex, but after that, everything runs seamlessly."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 62 reviews while SUSE Manager is ranked 13th in Configuration Management with 4 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while SUSE Manager is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Manager writes "Easy to deploy, offers embedded monitoring, and is very stable". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Automic Workload Automation, whereas SUSE Manager is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, AWS Systems Manager, BigFix and HashiCorp Terraform. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. SUSE Manager report.
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