IBM-TS3500-MIBv1

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Category: Domain: Storage, Fibre Channel and Storage, Vendor: IBM

Description: IBM MIB version 1 for the IBM TS3500 tape library system providing robotic, drive, and cartridge management objects.

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What Is IBM-TS3500-MIBv1?

IBM-TS3500-MIBv1 is IBM's MIB (version 1, under the legacy ibm3584 OID branch shared with the related 3584 tape library) for managing the IBM TS3500 automated tape library, a large robotic tape storage system. It exposes detailed SCSI-level diagnostic and status objects covering sense keys/codes, hardware error codes, tape alerts, and cartridge/volume identity, reflecting the library's robotics, drives, and media. This is a hardware-fault-centric MIB used to monitor the physical status of tape robotics and drives, administrators watch for non-zero sense/error codes and TapeAlert flags that indicate a stuck cartridge, drive fault, or robotic hand failure, and use volume serial/WWNN identifiers to pinpoint which cartridge or drive is affected. Its heavy reliance on SCSI sense-key/ASC/ASCQ conventions ties it to the SCSI/SMC (SCSI Media Changer) command-set standard rather than IETF MIBs. It is deployed in enterprise data centers and backup environments using the IBM TS3500 (or compatible 3584-family) automated tape library for large-scale backup/archive storage, where an IBM-TS3500-MIBv1 download gives administrators the SCSI-level diagnostics needed to pinpoint a stuck cartridge, drive fault, or robotic hand failure.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in IBM-TS3500-MIBv1. 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

  • IBM TS3500 automated tape library

Monitoring Examples

An admin would monitor ibm3584MIBObjectsSKASCASCQ and ibm3584MIBObjectsHECHECQ for non-zero SCSI sense/error codes indicating a drive or robotic fault, cross-referencing ibm3584MIBObjectsVOLSER and ibm3584MIBObjectsWWNN to identify the specific cartridge or drive involved; a persistent TapeAlert flag (ibm3584MIBObjectsTA) would signal a media or hardware problem requiring service.

What Can Be Monitored

  • SCSI sense key/ASC/ASCQ error codes
  • hardware error codes
  • TapeAlert flags
  • cartridge volume serial (VOLSER)
  • drive/library WWNN identity
  • fault sense code (FSC)
Imported Objects

From RFC-1215

TRAP-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

enterprises

From RFC1212-MIB

OBJECT-TYPE
OIDs

RFC description

IBM TS3500 tape library MIB v1 containing trap definitions for tape library monitoring and alerts.

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