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Dell PowerVault ML6000 Basic SNMP Reference Guide 1
About This Guide and Your Product
This guide is for library customers, partners, third party management software developers, and other parties
interested in integrating the PowerVault™ ML6000 with commercial management frameworks. It assumes
that you have a working knowledge of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), that you can compile
a Management Information Base (MIB) on your framework application, that you can perform SNMP GET
operations, and that you know how to collect SNMP traps and filter them for information.
This guide describes information that you can obtain from the ML6000 library using SNMP. Using SNMP,
you can monitor the library from a network management application rather than—or in addition to—the
library’s Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) ticket system. For information about the ML6000
library itself, refer to the PowerVault ML6000 Tape Library User’s Guide.
The ML6000 library supports SNMP by publishing a MIB that can be queried to obtain the status of the
library and many of its individual components. You can obtain status information automatically by
configuring the library to send alerts using SNMP traps, or you can obtain it on an ad-hoc basis by sending
SNMP queries from your network management application.
Although the library’s MIB contains additional objects that can be monitored via SNMP, this document
provides details only about the objects that are most likely to be requested from the MIB. It also identifies
the SNMP traps that can provide library status information to you automatically.
For more information about the library MIBs, contact technical support. For information on integrating MIBs
with an SNMP management application, contact your network management application vendor.
Explanation of Symbols and Notes
The following symbols appear throughout this document to highlight important information.
WARNING: A WARNING INDICATES A POTENTIAL FOR PROPERTY
DAMAGE, PERSONAL INJURY, OR DEATH.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of
data if instructions are not followed.