All MIBs › DSLAM-FLASH-MIB
Organization: Pairgain Technology
Last Updated: 1998-03-26
Category: Domain: DSL
Description: Manages flash memory operations including firmware updates and configuration storage on DSLAM equipment.
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What Is DSLAM-FLASH-MIB?
DSLAM-FLASH-MIB is a vendor enterprise MIB for managing flash memory operations on DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) broadband access equipment, including firmware upload/download and modem file transfer operations. It exposes objects for controlling flash download, upload, and file copy operations on the DSLAM itself, plus a modem transfer table for pushing firmware or configuration files to individual DSL modems. This MIB directly supports monitoring the software/firmware update status of the device and its attached modems, tracking operation status fields to confirm whether a flash download, upload, or modem firmware transfer completed successfully or failed. No explicit dependency on other MIBs is evident from the available description, though it likely complements a broader DSLAM system MIB family. It is deployed on DSLAM equipment in broadband access networks during firmware upgrade or configuration backup/restore maintenance windows. Engineers can download the DSLAM-FLASH-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer)
- DSL modem
Monitoring Examples
An administrator would poll pgDSLAMFlashOperStatus after initiating a pgDSLAMFlashDownLoad or pgDSLAMFlashUpLoad operation to confirm the flash transfer completed successfully rather than stalling or failing. Similarly, pgModemXferTable entries with pgModemXferOperStatus would be checked after triggering a pgModemXferAction to verify a firmware or config file transfer to a specific DSL modem, identified by pgModemXferSourceFilename and pgModemXferDestinationFilename, succeeded.
What Can Be Monitored
- flash download/upload status
- file copy operation status
- modem firmware transfer status
- transfer source/destination filenames
Imported Objects
| pgainDSLAM | OBJECT-IDENTITY |
From RFC-1212
| OBJECT-TYPE |
From RFC1155-SMI
| Gauge | |
| enterprises |
From RFC1213-MIB
| ifIndex |
From SNMPv2-SMI
| MODULE-IDENTITY |
OIDs
RFC description
PairGain Technologies DSLAM flash memory management MIB for firmware download/upload and file transfer operations on DSL access multiplexer devices.
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