Introduction

The HPE MSL Tape Library integration monitors HPE MSL tape libraries via the Command View Tape Library (CVTL) REST API, discovers tape libraries, drives, tapes, and backup hosts, and collects metrics for library status, drive health, capacity planning, and tape utilization.

The following helps you get started.

• To explore monitored metrics, see Supported Metrics and Default Monitoring Configuration.
• To verify prerequisites and configure, see Working with HPE MSL Tape Library.

Key Use Cases

Discovery Use Cases

• Discovers 5 resource types such as HPE CVTL Manager, HPE MSL Library, HPE MSL Drive, HPE MSL Tape, and HPE MSL Host.
• Publishes relationships between resources to provide a topological view.
• For detailed structure, see Resource Hierarchy.

Monitoring Use Cases

• Publishes 56 metrics across categories such as Availability, Performance, Usage.
• Supports threshold-based alerting for metrics where alerting is enabled in the workbook.

Supported Target Versions

• HPE MSL6480, MSL3040, MSL2024 tape libraries with CVTL REST API enabled.
• CVTL API versions supporting /rest/cvtl/ and /rest/index/ endpoints.

Resource Hierarchy

    • HPE CVTL Manager
        • HPE MSL Host
        • HPE MSL Library
            • HPE MSL Drive
            • HPE MSL Tape

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