HPE System Management Homepage and Opsview are enterprise-level system management tools for monitoring and managing IT infrastructure. Opsview has an edge in terms of features and offers a more comprehensive monitoring solution, though users find the pricing and support of HPE System Management Homepage more favorable.
Features: HPE System Management Homepage is highly regarded for its hardware monitoring capabilities, integration with HPE servers, and ease of use within HPE environments. Opsview stands out with its extensive plugin library, flexible monitoring options across diverse systems, and highly customizable alert systems.
Room for Improvement: Users noted that HPE System Management Homepage could improve its reporting functionalities, expand support for non-HPE hardware, and enhance its user interface. For Opsview, the main areas for enhancement are its interface speed, complexity of initial configuration, and scalability improvements.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE System Management Homepage is praised for its straightforward deployment within HPE ecosystems but criticized for limited support outside of it. Opsview offers more flexible deployment options with a steeper learning curve. Both products receive positive feedback on customer support, with HPE System Management Homepage acknowledged for quicker and more localized support.
Pricing and ROI: HPE System Management Homepage is considered cost-effective, particularly for existing HPE customers, with a quick return on investment. Opsview, while perceived as more expensive, justifies its cost through robust features and long-term benefits. Users generally feel Opsview delivers better value in the long term despite higher upfront costs.
The HPE System Management Homepage (SMH) consolidates and simplifies the management of ProLiant and Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, or HPE 9000 and HPE Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i. By aggregating data from HPE Insight Management Agents and other tools, SMH provides a secure and intuitive interface to review in-depth hardware configuration and status data, performance metrics, system thresholds and software version control information. SMH can also be used to access the HPE Lights-Out Management processor on ProLiant and Integrity servers. SMH is part of the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) or the Integrity Support Pack (ISP), and can be extended to meet specific system management requirements by integrating additional plug-in tools. SMH is easy to install and can be extended to meet specific system management requirements by integrating additional HPE plug-in management tools that include HPE Online Diagnostics and HPE Software Version Control Agents.
Opsview is a modern and scalable SaaS or on-premise monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.
You can use Opsview to monitor:
Operating systems
Networks
Cloud
VMs
Containers
Databases
Applications
Opsview Features
Opsview comes with an array of features, including:
AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your
changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.
Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all your end-to-end
business services in real time and in one place.
Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.
Network analyzer: Opsview provides you with a complete picture of your company's
network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.
Customizable dashboards: Opsview dashboards give you a view of all your monitoring
metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.
Customizable reports: With Opsview, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.
Disaster recovery: Opsview gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster
recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.
Event handlers: Opsview event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.
Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all the important events in your Opsview system.
High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.
Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.
Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting.
SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.
Opsview Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing Opsview. Some of the biggest advantages the
solution offers include:
Extensible: Opsview can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.
Scalable: Opsview is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.
Functional overview: Opsview monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.
Flexible: Opsview has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.
Integration: Easily integrate Opsview Cloud with your current operational tools, including help desks, service management, automation and notification tools
Automation: Automate the configuration and operation of your IT monitoring system using Opsview’s intrinsic automation capabilities. Allowing you to spend more time on projects that drive your business.
Opsview Cloud
Opsview Cloud gives your business 24/7 Saas Monitoring for your entire IT estate. Benefits include:
Reducing your infrastructure costs
Realigning your resources to focus on business value IT projects
Ensuring you have 24/7 monitoring
Utilizing Opsview experts to provide monitoring best practices/tips and tricks
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