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Category: Network Management, Storage
Description: Monitors HP Data Protector backup job status, media management, and error notifications.
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What Is DATAPROTECTOR-MIB?
DATAPROTECTOR-MIB is HP's vendor-specific SNMP module (under the hp enterprises branch) for HP Data Protector, an enterprise backup and recovery software product. It exposes objects that carry information about backup job events, source data, and error/status messages generated during backup or restore operations, primarily delivered via SNMP trap notifications rather than a large set of pollable tables. Rather than hardware, this MIB is squarely a software-status MIB: it is used to monitor backup job health, detect failures or warnings during a backup run, and identify which application, source object, or media element triggered an event, letting administrators catch a failed nightly backup or a media error before it becomes a data-protection gap. It relies on HP's enterprise SMI structure (org/dod/internet/private/enterprises/hp) but is otherwise self-contained around Data Protector's own trap format. It is typically deployed within HP Data Protector backup server environments in data centers that need SNMP-based alerting integrated into a broader network monitoring system. Engineers can download the DATAPROTECTOR-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- HP Data Protector backup servers
Monitoring Examples
A monitoring system would primarily consume Data Protector's SNMP traps carrying dpSourceId, dpSourceName, and dpObjectName to identify which backup source generated an event, alongside dpApplicationName, dpSeverity, and dpMessageText to determine whether it represents an error, warning, or informational notice. For example, a trap with a high dpSeverity value and dpMessageText referencing a failed tape write would immediately flag a backup job failure tied to a specific dpApplicationName. The dpDataList object would carry any additional structured detail attached to the event for deeper diagnosis.
What Can Be Monitored
- backup job status/severity
- backup source and application identity
- error/status message text
- media/tape error events
OIDs
RFC description
HP Data Protector backup software trap and event integration with OpenView monitoring platform.
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