Has anyone replaced OME with Zabbix?

Hi,

My apologies that you find OME is not up to your expectation and usability. I cannot give a good feedback or reply if Zabbix is an alternative. I don't have any knowledge of it. Yes, you can use this community to gather more information. Have you also posted in Zabbix's forum community for some insights? Here: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/ 

We use OME for "patching" rather than Monitoring. For the later we use NAGIOS/CheckMK or similar. I cant see how OME will ever replace a monitoring like Zabbix, PRTG....

Even as a Dell only shop i can tell that OME is limited. I just say "PowerStore", "N2000" Series.....  So for your question OME isnt the answer!

Regards,

Joerg

@Origin3k​ We use PRTG and am not looking to replace it with OME. We just use OME for patching (firmware and drivers, not OS obviously), and alerting. It's ok for firmware status but it doesn't seem capable of monitoring driver versions unless you install SSH, which I'm not going to do.

I'm also not going to use the iSM because it interferes with networking. The DBAs will complain something won't load, I'll fix it by tweaking the iSM, but then it reverts to its former configuration after an update. So forget that. 

I find alerting is bad, with poor, non-customizable messages. With OME 2.x I get terse messages like:

Device:someserver 172.17.10.33, Service Tag:, Asset Tag:, Date:8/21/2025, Time:17:45:51, Severity:Critical, Message:System is down: someserver

OME 4.x message:

Alert email
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Severity : Warning

Device : Sent from someserver

Device IP : 172.17.1.124

Category : System Health

Sub-category : NIC Configuration

Message ID : NIC100

Message : Event occurred for Device Name: someserver, Device IP Address: 172.30.10.124, Identifier: < Service tag info removed >, UTC Time: 2025-08-20 21:19:33.308, Severity: Warning, Message ID: NIC100, Description: The Integrated NIC 1 Port 3 network link is down. - System Display Name: Integrated NIC 1 Port 3 Partition 1 - System Service Tag: xxxxx - FQDN: someserver - FQDD: NIC.Integrated.1-3-1 - Chassis Service Tag: < Service tag info removed >

Recommended Action  : Verify that the network port is enabled and if the port has Activity/Speed LEDs, that they are lit. Check the network cable, network cable connections, and the attached network switch.
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Message sent by OpenManage Enterprise Application
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I don't want all that garbage. I know it's from OpenManage and I couldn't care less that Dell's rights are reserved or what year it happened, not to mention all the equal signs and spaces. Most times I read this stuff on a phone.