ACTIDATA-MIB

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Organization: Actidata LLC

Last Updated: 2011-11-15

Category: Fibre Channel and Storage

Description: Manages Actidata tape storage systems including drive status, cartridge inventory, and backup operation monitoring.

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What Is ACTIDATA-MIB?

ACTIDATA-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB for Actidata enterprise tape storage and backup systems, covering unit identification, environmental sensors, and relay/alarm outputs. It exposes basic unit identity objects (unitName, unitVersion), a set of relay control outputs (relay1, relay2) likely used for alarm signaling, and an indexed sensor table (nv1Sensortable/nv1SensortableEntry) with per-sensor value, validity, type, description, and ID (sensor1Value, sensor1Valid, sensor1Type, sensor1Description, sensor1ID). This MIB is heavily oriented toward hardware/environmental status monitoring, environmental sensors (e.g. temperature or door/enclosure sensors) feeding relay-driven alarms are exactly the kind of physical health indicators that reveal problems like overheating, an open enclosure, or a failed sensor before they cause data loss on the attached tape media. It sits in Actidata's own enterprise MIB branch and relies on standard SNMP SMI conventions rather than other vendor MIBs. It is typically deployed on Actidata tape library/autoloader hardware used for enterprise backup in data centers. Engineers can download the ACTIDATA-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ACTIDATA-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

Actidata tape backup/storage unit (autoloader/library)

Monitoring Examples

An administrator would poll the nv1Sensortable entries to read sensor1Value alongside sensor1Valid for each sensor1ID, watching for a sensor showing an out-of-range value or an invalid flag that indicates a failed temperature or environmental sensor inside the tape unit. If relay1 or relay2 shows an activated/alarm state, this typically corresponds to a triggered environmental threshold, such as overheating, prompting the admin to check unitName/unitVersion to identify the affected unit for service. This lets operators catch environmental faults in a tape backup unit before they cause media or drive damage.

What Can Be Monitored

environmental sensor value/validity
sensor type/description
relay/alarm output state
unit identity and firmware version

Imported Objects

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
OBJECT-IDENTITY
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DisplayString

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using relay1 OID:

Select an Actidata tape backup/storage unit as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type relay1 into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the relay 1 output. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is an INTEGER-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the value drifts significantly from its normal baseline, since an unexpected change often points to a real underlying issue. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
actidata	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758			The Structure of Management Information for the Actidata enterprise.
consumerProducts	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1			consumerProducts is the subtree root for consumer products developed by Actidata
NTF enteralarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.0.0			Enter to alarm state
NTF exitalarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.0.1			Exit from alarm state
STR unitName	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	A name for the module being managed.
INT unitVersion	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	The versoin number of the module being managed.
nv1Sensortable	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10		not-accessible	A list of sensor entries
nv1SensortableEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1		not-accessible	An entry containing objects for a particular sensor
INT nv1SensortableIndex	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.1	INTEGER	read-only	A unique value for each sensor.
INT sensor1Value	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	current sensor values (multiplyed by 10)
INT sensor1Valid	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	Sensor validity
INT sensor1Type	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.4	INTEGER	read-only	Sensor type
STR sensor1Description	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.5	DisplayString	read-only	Sensor description as text string
STR sensor1ID	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.6	DisplayString	read-only	Sensor ID as text string
INT sensor1Alarm	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.7	INTEGER	read-only	Sensor alarm
STR sensor1AlarmDescr	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.10.1.8	DisplayString	read-only	Sensor alarm description as text string
INT relay1Ex	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.20	INTEGER	read-write	Relay 1 output
INT relay2	1.3.6.1.4.1.37758.1.21	INTEGER	read-write	Relay 2 output

RFC description

Manages Actidata consumer products including relay outputs and sensor table monitoring.

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