Tape Library

Most of the supported Tape Libraries are discovered using SNMP and modeled as Storage Systems.
The only exception as for March 2024, are the IBM TS4300 and HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup Type Libraries that are discovered via REST API.
For some of the vendors BMC Discovery performs extended discovery in order to model additional components (see below).
The following patterns exist to support Tape Libraries discovery:

  • IBMTapeLibrary
  • HPTapeLibrary
  • HPTapeLibrary (StoreOnce type) with HPE StoreOnce (REST) pattern
  • OracleTapeLibrary
  • QuantumTapeLibrary

Tape Library patterns trigger on the StorageDevice having supported vendor and type = "TapeLibrary". They then verify if the model of the storage device is supported and create StorageSystem node and some additional nodes if extended discovery is supported.

Prerequisites

For the SNMP discovered Tape Libraries

  • SNMP credentials valid for the storage device with a minimum timeout set to 60 seconds to cover SNMP queries of any length.

For the REST-API discovered Tape Libraries

  • Valid IBM TS Tape Library REST API credentials for IBM TS4300 Tape Library. Note that depending on the library's configuration, service password might be required in addition to the username and password.
  • Valid REST API with basic authentication credentials for HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup Tape Library.

Supported Vendors and Models

IBM Tape Libraries

  • TS2900 (Machine Type 3572)
  • TS3100 (Machine Type 3573)
  • TS3200 (Machine Type 3573)
  • TS3400 (Machine Type 3577)
  • TS3500 (Machine Type 3584)
  • TS4500 (Machine Type 3584)
  • TS4300 – discovered via REST API

Hewlett-Packard Tape Libraries

  • StoreEver MSL4048 Tape Library
  • StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library
  • StoreEver ESL G3 Tape Library
  • EML 245e Tape Library
  • StorageWorks MSL 6030
  • StoreOnce 6500 Backup – discovered via REST API

Oracle Tape Libraries

  • StorageTek Tape Libraries

Quantum Tape Libraries

  • Scalar Tape Libraries

Extended Tape Library discovery

Extended discovery is only supported for IBM Tape Libraries discovered via SNMP and for HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup discovered via REST API (see more details here).
Additional elements that discovered are:

  • frame (modeled as HardwareContainer node)
  • tape drives (modeled as TapeDrive node).

In order to do extended discovery IBMTapeLibrary pattern requests additional SNMP tables.

Below you can see example of the TS4500 (Machine Type 3584) library containing three HardwareContainers and four TapeDrives.
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HardwareContainer
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TapeDrive
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Below you can see example of the StoreEver (Machine Type MSL4048) library displaying IPAdresses and NetworkInterfaces.
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IPAddress
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NetworkInterface
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Limitations

No known limitations.

 

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