We performed a comparison between OpenText Network Automation 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."Pushing the network configuration to bulk devices. This saves a considerable amount of time that the engineer spends in pushing the network configuration."
"When compared with SolarWinds, it is more user-friendly, and tasks can be completed more quickly."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless."
"The solution can scale."
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"It enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"Compatibility of the devices needs to be enhanced, as it seems to be limited."
"Level one administration task can be defined in Micro Focus Network Automation but it could be more simplified."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"The support could be better."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"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."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
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OpenText Network Automation is ranked 12th in Network Automation while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 2nd in Network Automation with 58 reviews. OpenText Network Automation is rated 7.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText Network Automation writes "Helps the configuration backup be validated before and after any change in the network infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". OpenText Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, BackBox, NetBrain and BMC TrueSight Network Automation, 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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