SNMP without HPOV

[Lucien Wolfs]

Hi,

We have a couple of tape libraries and donot have HP Openview installed. I would like to query the libraries using SNMP.
I'm not a SNMP-expert, but I guess that there are some solutions around that could do the trick, even a simple script might do magic for me.

Thx

[Joshua Scott]

if you're running HP-UX, try posting to the Networking or System Administration areas of HP-UX.

Josh

[David Ruska]

It depends which libraries you have, and whether they have a network interface and an SNMP MIB.

What library model(s)?

[Lucien Wolfs]

Our libraries do uspport SNMP. They are StorageTek L700 libraries

[David Ruska]

I assume they are the STK branded version (and not the HP L700).

You should contact STK to get their version of the SNMP MIB.

[Lucien Wolfs]

I do have the mib. It is a standard MIB.
Now I have a textfile.

But that doesnot provide me with any information of the library..

[David Ruska]

I'm not sure what you mean by a "standard MIB".

The MIB we have available for the HP branded L-series product has tons of library information. The MIB should start with stuff similar to:

---
storagetek OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { enterprises 1211 }
products OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { storagetek 1 }
lseriesTapeLibrary OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { products 12 }
lserAgent OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 1 }
lserTrap OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 2 }
lserLibrary OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 3 }
lserDrives OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 4 }
lserCaps OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 5 }
lserPassThru OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 6 }
lserInventory OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 7 }
lserStorage OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 8 }
lserPlayground OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 9 }
lserHardwareMonitor OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { lseriesTapeLibrary 10 }
---

As I understand it, you typically take the MIB text file and you compile into your application that provides the SNMP access.

[Lucien Wolfs]

Thx for the answer, though it's not very clear to me, but that is due to my limited knowledge of SNMP. I'm going back to STK to get me some MIB's