HPE System Management Homepage vs Zabbix comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Zabbix are both solutions in the Server Monitoring category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #20, while Zabbix is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 2.0% mindshare in SM, compared to Zabbix’s 11.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Zabbix users who would recommend it.

HPE System Management Homepage

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100% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

HPE System Management Homepage and Zabbix compete in IT infrastructure monitoring. Zabbix has the upper hand due to its extensive features and higher user satisfaction.

Features: HPE System Management Homepage provides reliable hardware monitoring, reporting capabilities, and good customer support. Zabbix offers open-source flexibility, powerful automation, and extensive customization options.

Room for Improvement: Users of HPE System Management Homepage seek a more modern interface, enhanced integration options, and faster updates. Zabbix users point out a steep learning curve, need for better documentation, and complexity in setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE System Management Homepage is known for straightforward setup and strong customer support. Zabbix, though more complex to deploy, benefits from a supportive community and extensive resources.

Pricing and ROI: HPE System Management Homepage is initially cost-effective but includes licensing fees. Zabbix, being open-source, has no licensing costs, and users report higher ROI due to scalability and adaptability.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE System Management Homepage

Ranking in Server Monitoring

20th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in Server Monitoring

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

108

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Network Monitoring Software (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of HPE System Management Homepage is 2.0%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 11.5%, down from 27.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Server Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Zabbix	11.5%
HPE System Management Homepage	2.0%
Other	86.5%

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Juan Esteban

Consultant at Freelance

Offers reliability and helps with the virtualization part

The product integrates with our company's existing IT infrastructure, especially when it comes to MicroK8s and other on-premises servers. The tool also helps with the virtualization in the ecosystem of our company, where there are other tools from HPE. Performance and network optimization are some of the beneficial areas in terms of server management. Speaking about how the remote management ability of the product impacted our company's IT operations, I would say that my organization has dealt with areas like RDP, DDI, and DMC, depending on the requirements of our final customers. In my experience, the product has contributed four hours in terms of reliability and to ensure the uptime of our servers. When it comes to the day-to-day use of HPE System Management's interface, I would say that it connects with some of the best tools and Hyper-V console with the help of Microsoft. I recommended the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

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KamranBhatti

Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Helps reduce response time but has room to improve customization complexity

We are not working on simple standalone solutions like Kaspersky DDoS Protection or Hybrid Cloud Security. Once you understand Zabbix, then it is easy to customize those web pages and graphs for our customer use. It is fully automated to your requirements. Zabbix is working fine with no issues, and I am satisfied with it. We have combined Zabbix and SolarWinds. The integration works fine, and it is easy to integrate Zabbix with the IT environment. We were trying to purchase MDR (Managed Detection and Response), but we are not working on that. I don't have real experience with MDR. We are using Falcon software for that. We are working with Falcon Complete, not with Sandbox. We are not using Kaspersky for business or cloud protection. For that, we are using Zabbix CrowdStrike Falcon Complete solution. I have given this review an overall rating of 8.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a smart system management tool that enables businesses to manage their operations more effectively."

"This solution has improved our organization through the provision of efficient resource utilization and capacity planning."

"This is a good product and I recommend it."

"This solution has improved our organization through the provision of efficient resource utilization and capacity planning."

"The interface is in continuous development and improves version by version."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy with the help of the framework consisting of Microsoft Azure."

"I think it's stable and flexible, and it's secure too."

"The managing and monitoring are the solution's most valuable features, and they are something I find quite helpful in my work."

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"I like being able to use proxy servers for different locations. The agents are pretty cool. They're easy to roll out. The standard out-of-the-box templates are also pretty easy to use. The integration with other learning products is also good. I have, in the past, used Slack, but we've integrated it with Microsoft Teams. We also use it for SMS with a service called Redcoat. It is very flexible. It does what I need it to do, and my manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything. We are nearing 4,000 hosts inside Zabbix, and we've got another 6,000 access points to add to it. We've thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going. I am very impressed with the tool, and I'd shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team. They keep improving it and doing refreshes, which is one good thing about it. There is also online information as well as books that you can purchase if you're willing to read enough. There is a lot to pick up, but it is a pretty complete solution."

"Zabbix helps to save time."

"The initial setup was not complex."

"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."

"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."

"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."

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Cons

"The agents don't always connect and communicate very well with the server."

"I think that support integration could be improved."

"The return on investment report is too difficult to understand."

"If the solution could provide better integration to make it easier to manage everything on different servers, that would be helpful."

"The quality of service and support for this solution needs to be improved."

"Our customers would like to see the price lowered."

"Good system management is costly."

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"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go."

"I really don't like it as it generates a lot of false information."

"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines."

"It's OK for me as is, but some frontend improvements would be nice."

"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."

"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."

"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."

"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The support is yearly-based and the license is permanent."

"The price of this product is fair."

"My company has invested 30,00,000 USD in the product."

"The license was included when we purchased the server."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."

"Its licensing is fair. It seems to be much cheaper than others."

"There is a license required for this solution and we pay annually for our license."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	56
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	34

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What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

I think Zabbix is economical, whereas SolarWinds is expensive. SolarWinds has a lot of secure features, but Zabbix is providing everything free of cost. Zabbix is economical, and you can install it...

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What needs improvement with Zabbix?

The potential and customization is a little difficult because you have to learn scripts. I think Zabbix needs to improve the customization better. At present, I am satisfied with the functionality ...

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Overview

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Zabbix

Sample Customers

Infotec

1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba

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