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Category: Domain: Storage, Fibre Channel and Storage, Vendor: EMC
Description: EMC control file MIB providing management objects for EMC storage system control file status and configuration.
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What Is EMC-CONTROL-FILE?
EMC-CONTROL-FILE is an EMC storage-system MIB focused on the status and configuration of a storage array's control file, a low-level structure used internally by EMC storage platforms to manage array state and configuration persistence. With no module description or sample objects available, its scope must be inferred from its name and short description: it is a narrow, storage-array-specific management module rather than a general performance or interface MIB. Its likely monitoring relevance is to the software/configuration status of the storage controller -- specifically whether the control file is valid, synchronized, or in a fault state -- which is a software-integrity signal rather than a hardware sensor reading. As an EMC proprietary module, it would be used alongside EMC's broader storage-array MIB suite (covering disks, LUNs, and array health) rather than any IETF standard. It is deployed in EMC storage array environments (e.g., Symmetrix/CLARiiON-era arrays) where EMC-CONTROL-FILE SNMP monitoring helps administrators track control-file health as part of overall array configuration integrity.
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Supported Devices
- EMC storage arrays (Symmetrix/CLARiiON-class)
Monitoring Examples
No sample_objects were provided for this module, so a concrete object-level monitoring scenario cannot be given without inventing plausible-sounding names; in general terms, an administrator would use this MIB to check the control file's status/consistency state on an EMC array to catch configuration corruption or an out-of-sync control file before it causes array management issues.
What Can Be Monitored
- control file status
- control file configuration state
Imported Objects
From RFC-1212
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From RFC1155-SMI
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| experimental |
OIDs
RFC description
Provides control objects for EMC gateway management and basic enterprise MIB definitions.
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