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BMC TrueSight Server Automation pros and cons

Vendor: BMC Helix
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

BMC TrueSight Server Automation provides flexibility for deployments across many OS platforms and eases server restrictions with role-based authorization.
It features robust automation capabilities, allowing for efficient script creation and BL package deployment to streamline IT processes.
The solution offers effective patch automation and compliance management by integrating with vulnerability management systems to address issues seamlessly.
BMC TrueSight Server Automation enhances service delivery speed and provides quick remediation across multiple IT assets with minimal manual effort.
BMC support is highly efficient, providing timely solutions to complex queries and issues.

CONS

Setup of BMC TrueSight Server Automation is very complicated and requires simplification.
Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly, and issues have caused some to stop using the tool for this purpose.
There is a need for more API integration and better REST call handling, as well as improvements in compliance management and remediation processes.
Resource management is sluggish, requiring increased RAM and CPU, particularly during patching.
Initial setup, especially in large organizations, is complex, and the architecture is not straightforward.
 

BMC TrueSight Server Automation Pros review quotes

MN
System Manager at State Bank of India
Jul 2, 2025
The overall role of BMC TrueSight Server Automation in managing configuration drift brings return on investment through its automation, which helps save me the time and effort of my operations team.
SumitSrivastava1 - PeerSpot reviewer
AM at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
May 24, 2024
You can easily get the patching link. Patches can be deployed easily with a single click, making deployment straightforward. This eliminates the need for constant monitoring. You can deploy the necessary patches with one click, ensuring everything is signed correctly, and all issues are resolved.
Ilhami Arikan - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji
May 30, 2023
The solution is stable.
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JonathanShilling - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 30, 2023
Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates.
SP
Solution Architech at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jul 27, 2023
Scalability is good.
MK
Datacenter & Infrastructure Senior Engineer at BMB
Mar 11, 2023
The best feature of the solution is patch automation.
Atcv653 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Mar 11, 2023
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.
Suraj Mane - PeerSpot reviewer
TrueSight Server Automation Consultant at Vyom Labs
Mar 10, 2023
As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost.
TechLeade6ef - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 16, 2019
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.
AC
IT Consultant at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 3, 2019
It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security.
 

BMC TrueSight Server Automation Cons review quotes

MN
System Manager at State Bank of India
Jul 2, 2025
I have some concerns regarding BMC TrueSight Server Automation that could be improved, particularly in the reporting part. The pending patches report generated after the analysis only reflects the job executed, but in a distributed environment where multiple teams manage servers, central governance requires server status updates driven by servers rather than jobs.
SumitSrivastava1 - PeerSpot reviewer
AM at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
May 24, 2024
More use cases can be automated. The user interface of BMC TrueSight Server Automation could benefit from enhancements, as it currently lacks refinement.
Ilhami Arikan - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji
May 30, 2023
We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good.
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JonathanShilling - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 30, 2023
We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching.
SP
Solution Architech at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Jul 27, 2023
The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task.
MK
Datacenter & Infrastructure Senior Engineer at BMB
Mar 11, 2023
There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include.
Atcv653 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Mar 11, 2023
TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format.
Suraj Mane - PeerSpot reviewer
TrueSight Server Automation Consultant at Vyom Labs
Mar 10, 2023
Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated.
TechLeade6ef - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 16, 2019
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.
AC
IT Consultant at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 3, 2019
I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution.