F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management vs. Red Hat Satellite

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management is a great interface to manage F5 gear for large enterprises, often simplifying the routine manual workflows which are time consuming.

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Red Hat Satellite works amazingly with servers that need more control over their packages. For one or two servers that you're just doing "dnf update" Red Hat Satellite is way overkill.

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• It show us all F5s in one spot
• It is able to take backups
• It can help with upgrades
• Give central spot to make reports

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• Patches
• License Management
• Dashboards / Visibility

• To be able to schedule software updates at a later time/date to meet change management window so manual intervention is minimized. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management should be able to send alert if upgrade process halts or fails for any reason.

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• I woud love for it to provide the same functionality for non-RHEL OS's
• Containerized Installation
• Simplified workflow setup

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It may be due to how we deployed it or how we use it, but it adds time to doing small changes. I do like the deployment detail and change tracking though.

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When you're first getting into the platform, the GUI can be a little confusing. It takes a little while to get accustomed to where everything is, and what everything is used for. I highly recommend prior training / classes before diving into the platform. This will ensure a better transition into the platform, and more likely to use more features of it overall due to the new knowledge gained

B/c We liked the other products even less

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• In 2021 thanks to Big-IQ we drastically reduced the time we spend on software upgrades.
• BigIQ helped us to have visibility of our Big-IP environment in one place.

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• We have been able to automate the update process to not require after-hours monitoring.
• Centralizing updates has greatly reduced the overall time servers are down and processing their individual updates.
• We are able to bring our own RPM packages in and stage them in the same deployment model as official Red Hat packages.

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