All MIBs › IANA-STORAGE-MEDIA-TYPE-MIB
Organization: IANA
Last Updated: 2015-10-12
Category: Standard: IETF, Textual Conventions and Registries
Description: IANA MIB defining textual conventions for storage media type identifiers used in storage management MIBs.
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What Is IANA-STORAGE-MEDIA-TYPE-MIB?
IANA-STORAGE-MEDIA-TYPE-MIB is a vendor-neutral IETF/IANA MIB module that defines textual conventions (enumerated type definitions) for identifying the media type of a storage device, such as disk, tape, or other storage media classes. It does not itself expose any runtime instance data or tables; instead it supplies a standard set of named constants that other storage-management MIBs reference when reporting a device's media type. Its role in monitoring is purely as a supporting vocabulary: MIBs such as host-resources or storage-specific vendor MIBs use these textual conventions to report the type of storage media in a disk/tape status table, aiding in hardware inventory and status classification rather than reporting health metrics directly. As an IANA-maintained module it is explicitly designed to be imported by other storage MIBs (e.g., HOST-RESOURCES-MIB extensions or SCSI/RAID vendor MIBs), making it a foundational dependency rather than a standalone monitoring tool. It is used across any SNMP-managed device with storage subsystems, from servers to storage arrays, wherever a MIB needs to report storage media type in a standard way, as codified in the IANA-STORAGE-MEDIA-TYPE-MIB RFC registration maintained by IANA.
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Supported Devices
- vendor-neutral, standards-based MIB, not tied to a specific manufacturer; applies to any device with storage subsystems (servers, storage arrays, NAS)
Monitoring Examples
This module is a textual-convention/conformance-style definition module with no runtime data objects of its own; it defines an enumerated StorageMediaType convention rather than any Table/Entry structure to poll. A monitoring system never queries this MIB directly for live values, it only encounters its defined enumeration values when another MIB's storage table (e.g., a disk-media-type column) reports a device's media type using this convention.
Imported Objects
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| mib-2 |
From SNMPv2-TC
| TEXTUAL-CONVENTION |
OIDs
RFC description
Defines standard textual conventions for identifying storage device media types (RFC 7666).
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