About This Guide And Your Product; Explanation Of Symbols And Notes - Quantum Scalar i500 Reference Manual

This guide is for library customers, partners, third party management software developers, and other parties
interested in integrating the Scalar® i500 with commercial management frameworks. It assumes that you
have a working knowledge of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), that you can compile a
Management Information Base (MIB) on your framework application, that you can perform SNMP GET
operations, and that you know how to collect SNMP traps and filter them for information.
This guide describes information that you can obtain from the Scalar i500 library SNMP. Using SNMP, you
can monitor the library from a network management application rather than—or in addition to—the library's
Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) ticket system. For information about the Scalar i500 library
itself, refer to the Scalar i500 Tape Library User's Guide.
The Scalar i500 library supports SNMP by publishing a MIB that can be queried to obtain the status of the
library and many of its individual components. You can obtain status information automatically by
configuring the library to send alerts using SNMP traps, or you can obtain it on an ad-hoc basis by sending
SNMP queries from your network management application.
Although the library's MIB contains additional objects that can be monitored via SNMP, this document
provides details only about the objects that are most likely to be requested from the MIB. It also identifies
the SNMP traps that can provide library status information to you automatically.
For more information about the library MIBs, contact technical support. For information on integrating MIBs
with an SNMP management application, contact your network management application vendor.

Explanation of Symbols and Notes

The following symbols appear throughout this document to highlight important information.
INDICATES A POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SITUATION WHICH, IF NOT
WARNING
AVOIDED, COULD RESULT IN DEATH OR BODILY INJURY.
Indicates a situation that may cause possible damage to equipment, loss of
CAUTION
data, or interference with other equipment.
Indicates important information that helps you make better use of your system.
Note
Scalar i500 Basic SNMP Reference Guide

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