NMS-FLASH

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Category: Hardware Inventory

Description: Handles flash memory partitions, file system operations, and storage status on NMS Communications devices.

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What Is NMS-FLASH?

NMS-FLASH is a vendor-specific MIB from NMS Communications (a telephony/media-processing hardware vendor) used to manage the flash memory subsystem of its network devices. It exposes data about flash partitions, file-system layout, and storage operations such as formatting, writing, or erasing flash regions. Its primary monitoring value is hardware/software status: administrators use it to check flash storage health, available space, partition state, and the success or failure of firmware/file write operations, which is critical since a failed flash operation can leave a device unable to boot. It is a proprietary extension and does not appear to depend on a specific standard MIB beyond the general SNMPv2 SMI framework. Typical deployment is on NMS Communications voice/media gateway or signaling boards where flash-resident configuration and firmware must be monitored for capacity and integrity. Engineers can download the NMS-FLASH file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in NMS-FLASH. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

NMS Communications media/voice gateway or signaling board

Monitoring Examples

Since no runtime data objects were captured in the sample set, a concrete polling scenario cannot be grounded in real object names here; the module is understood from its description to expose flash partition and file-system operation status rather than a documented object list. In practice an operator would poll partition-status style scalars/tables to detect a partition reporting an error state or unexpectedly low free space, which would signal an impending flash write failure. Because the object set is not available, this should be treated as a general characterization rather than a specific object-level example.

What Can Be Monitored

flash partition status
available flash storage space
flash write/erase operation result
file system integrity

Imported Objects

From NMS-SMI

nmslocal

OBJECT-IDENTITY

From RFC-1212

OBJECT-TYPE

From RFC1155-SMI

TimeTicks

From RFC1213-MIB

DisplayString

OIDs

OID symbolic	OID numeric	Type	Access	Description
nmslflash	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10
INT nmsflashSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.1	INTEGER	read-only	Total Size in Octets of Flash memory
INT nmsflashFree	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.2	INTEGER	read-only	Unused Size in Octets of Flash memory
STR nmsflashController	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.3	DisplayString	read-only	Provides the type of Flash controller (either CCTL or CCTL2) installed in the router.
STR nmsflashCard	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.4	DisplayString	read-only	Provides the type of Flash Card installed in the router. For example, the type of Flash Card could be either CSC-MS or CSC-MC+.
INT nmsflashVPP	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.5	INTEGER	read-only	State of the VPP DIP jumper on the Flash memory card. Files can be written to the Flash memory card only if the VPP DIP jumper is turned on.
INT nmsflashErase	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.6	INTEGER	write-only	Request to erase flash memory
TIK nmsflashEraseTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.7	TimeTicks	read-only	Indicates the value of sysUptime the last time Flash memory was erased. If the flash had not been erased after powerup it has a value of 0 days 00:00:00.
INT nmsflashEraseStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.8	INTEGER	read-only	Status of current or last flash erasing
STR nmsflashToNet	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.9	DisplayString	write-only	Write flash entry to tftp server. Value should be the name of the flash entry to send. Instance is the IP address of the tftp host.
TIK nmsflashToNetTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.10	TimeTicks	read-only	Indicates the value of sysUpTime the last time a file was transfered from Flash memory on the router to a TFTP host. Returns 0 days 00:00:00 if there had been no transfer since powerup.
INT nmsflashToNetStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.11	INTEGER	read-only	Status of current or last flash to net transfer
STR nmsnetToFlash	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.12	DisplayString	write-only	Write flash entry from tftp server. Value should be the name of the flash entry to write. Instance is the IP address of the tftp host.
TIK nmsnetToFlashTime	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.13	TimeTicks	read-only	Indicates the value of sysUpTime the last time file was copied from a Trivial File Transfer Protocol(TFTP) server to the Flash memory on the router. Returns 0 days 00:00:00 if there had been no transfers since powerup.
INT nmsnetToFlashStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.14	INTEGER	read-only	Status of current or last net to flash transfer
INT nmsflashStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.15	INTEGER	read-only	Status of the availability of flash
INT nmsflashEntries	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.16	INTEGER	read-only	Number of entries in the flash directory
nmslflashFileDirTable	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.17		not-accessible	A list of flash file entries.
nmslflashFileDirEntry	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.17.1		not-accessible	A collection of flash eprom objects
STR nmsflashDirName	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.17.1.1	DisplayString	read-only	Name associated with the flash entry
INT nmsflashDirSize	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.17.1.2	INTEGER	read-only	Size in Octets of a flash entry
INT nmsflashDirStatus	1.3.6.1.4.1.11606.10.2.10.17.1.3	INTEGER	read-only	Indicates the status of the entry

RFC description

Manages NMS Communications device flash memory partitions, file system operations, and storage status.

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What Is NMS-FLASH?

Supported Devices

Monitoring Examples

What Can Be Monitored

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