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Category: Domain: Storage, Vendor: Exabyte
Description: Manages Exabyte tape library and backup device hardware status, media slots, and drive operations.
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What Is EXABYTE-MIB?
EXABYTE-MIB is a vendor-specific SNMP module for Exabyte Corporation's tape library and automated backup hardware, a legacy vendor in the enterprise tape-backup and storage sector. It exposes data about physical media slots, tape drive mechanisms, robotic picker/changer status, and backup job operations within the library chassis. The MIB is used to monitor hardware status such as drive readiness, media presence/mount state, robotic arm faults, and overall library operational health, functioning much like a hardware-health watchdog for the tape autoloader. No module description text was available in this source, so a specific dependency on other MIBs cannot be confirmed beyond standard SNMPv2-SMI conventions. It is typically deployed in data-center backup environments where administrators poll the library via SNMP to detect drive failures, jammed media, or robotics faults before a scheduled backup job fails. Engineers can download the EXABYTE-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Exabyte tape library
- Exabyte automated tape backup/autoloader hardware
Monitoring Examples
No module description or sample object/table names were available in the source extract for this MIB, so specific objects cannot be cited without invention. In a typical deployment an administrator would poll drive-status and slot-occupancy style objects (following common tape-library MIB patterns) to confirm a scheduled backup drive is online and a tape has correctly mounted. An anomaly such as an unmounted tape, a drive reporting a hardware fault, or a picker error would show up as an abnormal status value, indicating a stalled or failed backup job.
What Can Be Monitored
- tape drive status
- media slot occupancy
- robotic picker/changer state
- backup job/drive faults
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Exabyte Corporation MIB for managing tape storage and backup devices via SNMP. Provides monitoring objects for tape library and cartridge management.
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