DELL-TL4000-MIB

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Description: Dell TL4000 LTO tape library MIB for monitoring product identity, status, and hardware event notifications on the Dell TL4000 tape library

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What Is DELL-TL4000-MIB?

DELL-TL4000-MIB is a vendor-specific MIB from Dell that manages the Dell PowerVault TL4000 LTO tape library, covering product identity, overall status, physical inventory, and hardware event notifications. It exposes identity objects under TL4000Id (TL4000IdDisplayName, TL4000IdDescription, TL4000AgentVendor, TL4000IdAgentVersion, TL4000IdBuildNumber), an overall health object in TL4000Status (TL4000StatusGlobalStatus with values such as other/unknown/ok), and physical-inventory tables under TL4000Physical — libraryTable (indexed by libraryEntryId, reporting libraryState, libraryDoorState, libraryFaultFSC/Sev/Descr, slot and drive counts, and fetch/stow retry counters) and driveTable (indexed by driveEntryId, reporting driveState, driveClean, driveLoads, and soft/hard read and write error counts per tape drive). It also defines a set of TRAP-TYPE/NOTIFICATION-TYPE events under TL4000Event (eventStatusChange, eventDoorOpen, eventMailSlotAccessed, eventFaultPosted, eventRequestDriveClean, eventDriveError, eventLoaderRetriesExcessive, eventLoaderOK) covering fault, door, and drive-cleaning conditions. This is a purely vendor-specific hardware MIB with no standards-track dependency beyond basic SNMPv1 SMI imports, and it is deployed for monitoring tape-backup infrastructure health. Administrators searching for the DELL-TL4000-MIB MIB typically want it to feed library and drive status into a backup-monitoring dashboard.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in DELL-TL4000-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 PowerVault TL4000 LTO tape library

Monitoring Examples

An operator polls driveTable for a given driveEntryId to check driveHardReadErrors and driveHardWrtErrors alongside driveClean; a climbing hard-error count combined with driveClean showing the drive is overdue would indicate a tape drive needing cleaning or replacement before backup jobs start failing.

What Can Be Monitored

  • product identity and firmware/build version
  • overall library global status
  • library door/import-export state and fault codes
  • slot and drive fetch/stow retry counters
  • per-drive soft/hard read and write error counts
  • drive-cleaning and loader-fault event notifications
Imported Objects

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC-1215

TRAP-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

enterprises

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString
OIDs

RFC description

Manages the Dell TL4000 LTO tape library with product identification, hardware status, and configuration information.

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