We performed a comparison between NetBrain and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Red Hat, SolarWinds and others in Network Automation."This product has good network monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities."
"A reliable, time-saving tool for providing accurate layer 2 and layer 3 network mappings."
"Chain management is a good feature. I don't get it on other solutions."
"NetBrain is a very simple tool."
"Enables maps to be drawn out."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"On the network side, I already have a lot of our firewall related processes automated. If it's not automated all the way from the ticket system, our network team members, our tier-one guys in India, can just go into the Tower web interface and fill in a couple of survey questions."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"The solution could integrate more automation."
"The IP interface brief isn't consistent."
"Support needs to improve for the installed product and some of the reporting could be more flexible to provide more complete cataloging."
"It would be nice if the setup was a little simpler. Also, if the solution could provide more training materials for new people coming into our company so they can quickly learn how to use the functionalities."
"Each device needs to be configured to allow NetBrain to poll for the information it needs, which can be very time-consuming for a large network."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"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."
"We are not using the Dashboard a lot because we have higher expectations from it. The default Dashboard from Tower doesn't give that much information. We really want to get down into more than if the job succeeded or what was the percentage of success. We want to get down to task-level success. If, in a job, there are ten tasks, we want to see this task was a success, and this was not, and how many were not. That's the kind of granularity we are looking for, that Tower does not give right now."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
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NetBrain is ranked 5th in Network Automation while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews. NetBrain is rated 7.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetBrain writes "Good monitoring and troubleshoot capabilities, improves overall network traffic visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". NetBrain is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager, ScienceLogic and Forward Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune.
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