Alerts and logging

The TS2900TL1000 Tape Autoloader sends alerts about the library and attached tape drive, and offers audit-logging to track user actions.

  • TapeAlert Support: The library is compatible with TapeAlert technology, which provides error and diagnostic information about the drives and the library to the host application. The library provides this error and diagnostic information as TapeAlert flags that are reported to the application. See TapeAlert flags.
  • Email (SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Notifications: The library can configure email notification of library events. The library must have network access to an SMTP server. See Locating management functions.
  • SNMP Support: The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows the library to send alerts over a LAN network to a monitoring station.

    Occasionally, the library might encounter a situation that you want to know about, such as an open magazine or a fault that causes the library to stop.

    The library provides a standard TCP/IP protocol that is called SNMP to send alerts about conditions over a TCP/IP LAN network to an SNMP monitoring station. These alerts are called SNMP traps. With the information that is supplied in each SNMP trap, the monitoring station (together with customer-supplied software) can alert operations personnel of possible problems or operator interventions that occur.

    The new configuration capability of SNMP Query provides a common Management Information Base (MIB) across all the IBM tape libraries. This capability allows a product administrator to audit the settings of all their IBM tape libraries to ensure that they comply with their own policies.

    SNMP Traps are alerts or status messages that can be collected, monitored, and used to proactively manage attached libraries with SNMP protocol with the SNMP monitoring stations. In summary, each trap provides the following information.

    • Product Identification such as product name, description, manufacturer, model number, firmware level, and the URL that the trap is designated for.
    • Product Status such as the severity of the trap, status (current and previous) and the time the trap occurred.
    • Library State (physical device status) such as identification and status of devices that is monitored. It would include enclosure, power supply, controller, magazine status, drive count, cartridge slot count, and I/O station count. Also included would be certain library statistics, and where appropriate, the fault FSC (fault symptom code) including the severity and description of that fault.
    • Drive Status such as the identification of each drive in the library, firmware level, serial number, and other address and status information.
    • Trap Definitions such as library status change, open magazine, I/O accessed, hard fault information, requests to clean the drive, excessive retries, and returning to normal operations.
    • SNMP MIBs The library's MIB contains units of information that specifically describe an aspect of the system, such as the system name, hardware number, or communications configuration. When with SNMP to monitor your TS2900TL1000 Tape Autoloader, ensure that the TS2900TL1000 MIB file is loaded on your SNMP monitoring station. SNMP traps are sent to the SNMP monitoring stations that are defined for your library (see Configuring SNMP notifications). Download the SNMP MIB file for this library from https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.