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

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, which allows us to manage the entire infrastructure from the console."

"I think it's stable, scalable, and flexible."

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

"Overall as a management tool to see a complete overview of the entire HP hardware infrastructure, this is an excellent tool."

"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."

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

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

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"The basic setup is very easy."

"During my testing, the features that I like the most are that it can be integrated with my system, and it provides me with reports of all of my servers."

"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."

"The solution is stable."

"This is a product I can recommend to others."

"It monitors almost everything."

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

"We have thrown everything at it, and it has managed to keep going, and I am very impressed with the tool, and I would shake their hand very hard if I got to say the compliments to the Zabbix team."

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Cons

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

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

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

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

"If the solution could provide better integration to make it easier to manage everything on different servers, that would be helpful. Whatever servers a company has, be it IBM, Dell, etc., if the System Management could be a platform that links all of them together, it would make management across different server types easier."

"The product should increase the processing capacity and allow speedy deployment, as both of them are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Good system management is costly."

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"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."

"If anything could be improved, it would be some of the terminology that is used in the documentation."

"One of the things we don't like is that Zabbix has a license structure with a price that is high compared to the competition."

"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."

"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."

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price of this product is fair."

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

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

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

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

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

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

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

"We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."

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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

Computer Software Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

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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