COMPELLENT-MIB

MIB Reference — IPNetwork Monitor · Updated September 09, 2026

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Organization: Dell-Compellent

Last Updated: 2013-05-20

Category: Fibre Channel and Storage, Vendor: EMC

Description: Manages Dell Compellent SAN storage array health, volumes, and controller status via SNMP.

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What Is COMPELLENT-MIB?

COMPELLENT-MIB is Dell's (originally Compellent Technologies') enterprise MIB for monitoring Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN arrays. It is built to expose the operational status of the storage array as a whole, including its controllers, volumes, and underlying hardware components. Its central purpose is hardware and software health monitoring for a SAN: tracking controller status (active/failed, redundancy state), volume/LUN health, and by extension the array's overall availability, which administrators rely on to catch a failed controller, degraded volume, or storage subsystem fault before it causes an outage. As an enterprise storage MIB it likely coexists with, or is layered alongside, standard hardware-inventory concepts such as ENTITY-MIB style physical component modeling, though this is implied rather than explicit in the module's own description. It is deployed in enterprise and datacenter environments running Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN arrays that need centralized SNMP-based health monitoring. Engineers can download the COMPELLENT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in COMPELLENT-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

  • Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN arrays

Monitoring Examples

No specific object or table names were available for this module beyond its general purpose, so a concrete polling example cannot be grounded in real object identifiers here; in practice, though, the module's stated purpose is monitoring Storage Center status, meaning an administrator would use it to check overall array health, controller state, and volume status to catch degraded or failed storage hardware.

What Can Be Monitored

  • storage array overall health status
  • storage controller status
  • volume/LUN status
  • disk or enclosure status
Imported Objects

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-MIB

sysNameOBJECT-TYPE

From SNMPv2-SMI

MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-IDENTITY
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32
enterprises

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using productIDGlobalStatus OID:

Select a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN array 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 productIDGlobalStatus into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, then select it and click OK. It reports the current status of the product. This is a rollup for the entire product including any monitored devices. 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 is anything other than 'ok', since that indicates the condition this object reports has changed to one worth investigating. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Monitors and manages Dell-Compellent Storage Center products including controllers, enclosures, disks, and alerts.

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