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Organization: Panasas, Inc
Last Updated: 2011-04-07
Category: Storage
Description: Monitors blade storage node status, capacity, and health within Panasas parallel file system clusters.
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What Is PANASAS-BLADESET-MIB-V1?
PANASAS-BLADESET-MIB-V1 is a vendor-specific SNMP module from Panasas for managing "bladesets" (groups of storage blades) within Panasas' parallel/scale-out file system storage clusters, used in HPC and large-scale storage environments. It exposes capacity and inventory data - total, used, reserved, and available capacity per blade set, blade counts, and spare-blade availability. This is squarely a hardware/storage health monitoring MIB: it lets operators track available spare blades versus requested spares (a proxy for redundancy/failure headroom), overall capacity utilization, and blade-set-level status, which are key indicators of storage hardware health and impending capacity or redundancy problems. It is a self-contained vendor MIB with no explicit dependency on IETF standard MIBs beyond basic SNMP structure. Typical deployment context is HPC clusters and large storage/compute environments where Panasas ActiveStor systems provide high-performance shared storage. Engineers can download the PANASAS-BLADESET-MIB-V1 file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Panasas ActiveStor storage blade/bladeset cluster node
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll panBSetAvailSpares against panBSetRequestedSpares in panBSetTable/panBSetEntry to detect when a bladeset has fewer spare blades than required, signaling reduced fault tolerance after a blade failure. Tracking panBSetUsedCapacity versus panBSetTotalCapacity and panBSetAvailableCapacity over time reveals approaching capacity exhaustion. A drop in panBSetNumBlades from its expected value would indicate a blade has gone offline or been removed from the set.
What Can Be Monitored
- number of blades in a bladeset
- available spare blades
- requested spare blades
- total capacity
- reserved capacity
- used/available capacity
Imported Objects
From PANASAS-PANFS-MIB-V1
| panFs | MODULE-IDENTITY |
From PANASAS-TC-MIB
| PanSerialNumber |
From RFC1213-MIB
| DisplayString |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY | |
| OBJECT-TYPE | |
| Unsigned32 |
OIDs
RFC description
Panasas BladeSet v1 storage system management MIB for parallel storage appliances; vendor-private.
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