FS-NMS-TC

This textual convention defines the format of the
displayable textual result from the bulk configuration
operation specified as ConfigIterator type.

The format should be:
'COMPLETION=<number of rows had completed before any
error occured>/<number of rows was designated>,
ERROR=<error code>/<index where the error occured>:
<error text>'

For example:
'COMPLETION=22/100,ERROR=38/44:Invalid Ds1 line coding
for the line type'

This object type is a control object type which applies to
writable objects in the same SNMP PDU related to the
same table containing those objects. It controls an
operation which repeatedly applies the specified
configuration data to more than one rows in a table.
The operation starts from the row specified by the index
of the instance and repeats for the number of rows as
the value of the object.

ConfigIterator object needs to be accompanied by one set of
writable objects which are of the same instance to apply to.

For example, a SNMP PDU contains
{ objectA.10 = 1,
objectB.10 = 'E1',
objectC.10 = 44,
objectRepetition.10 = 100 }

The SYNTAX of objectRepetition is ConfigIterator.
This will apply value 1 to objectA, value 'E1' to objectB,
value 44 to objectC in the table starting from row 10
repeatedly for 100 rows.

The iteration is based on the number of rows, not based on
the value of the index. For sparse tables, the index 10,
20, 30, 110, and 120 counts for 5 rows, the operation will
go beyond index 100 in the previous SNMP PDU example.

The iteration will stop prematurely when it comes to the
following situations:
(1) When the number of the rows in the table is less than
the designated row indicated by the ConfigIterator
object.
(2) When it encounters the first error in any row, the
operation won't continue to next row.

The operation of ConfigIterator object applies only to
the writable objects having the same index as the
ConfigIterator object in one SNMP PDU.

For example, a SNMP PDU contains
{ objectD.5 = 38,
objectE.6 = 'T1',
objectF.5 = 'false',
objectIterator.5 = 10 }

The SYNTAX of objectIterator is ConfigIterator.
This will apply value 38 to objectD, value 'false' to
objectF in the table starting from row 5 repeatedly
for 10 rows. Since the object objectE.6 has different
index (6) from the index of objectIterator, the
repetition won't be applied to it. However the value
of objectE in the row 6 will be set to 'T1' according
to regular SNMP SET orperation.

If there is row overlapping of the iteration in a SNMP PDU,
it will be operated as they are in two different SNMP PDUs.

For example, a SNMP PDU contains
{ objectD.5 = 38,
objectD.6 = 40,
objectE.6 = 'T1',
objectF.5 = 'false',
objectIterator.5 = 10
objectIterator.6 = 10 }

This will apply value 38 to objectD, value 'false' to
objectF starting from row 5 repeatedly for 10 rows, and
apply value 40 to objectD, value 'T1' to objectE starting
from row 6 repeatedly for 10 rows. The final value of
objectD.6 can be 38 or 40, it depends on the SNMP stack of
the system starts SNMP SET for the row 5 before the row 6
or the other way around.

The object defined as ConfigIterator will be set to value 1
after the iteration operation is kick-off regardless the
system has completed the operation to the designated rows
or not. Therefore retrieving the value of this object
is meaningless. It acts as the one time operation for
bulk configuration.

The object defined as ConfigIterator has no meaning by itself,
it has to be combined with one or more than one writable
objects from the same table and within the same SNMP PDU
for the repetition operation.

For example, a SNMP PDU contains
{ objectG.2 = 49,
objectH.2 = 'AE'h
objectIterator.4 = 20 }

The SYNTAX of objectIterator is ConfigIterator. Since
there are no objects having the same index as the index
of objectIterator in the PDU, the result of this SNMP
operation will set value 49 to objectG and value 0xAE
to objectH of the row 2 only as regular SNMP SET operation.

The index of the instance indicates the starting row for the
iteration.
The order of the iteration depends, for instance, on:
(1) physical hardware position, or
(2) logical index.

It depends on the characters of the table which contains
the ConfigIterator object.

Iteration can be done through some or all the components
of the index for a table. The description of the iterator
object in that table should describe which part of the
index the iteration is applied to.

The operation for this object type is based on the best
effort. When the agent receives a SNMP PDU containing this
data type, the return status of the SNMP request reflects
only the result of the SET operation has applied to the
starting row. It may return a SNMP response with SUCCESS
status regardless the number of rows for the data actually
been deployed later on. Therefore it is possible the data
might not be completely deployed to the number of rows
designated by the ConfigIterator and the operation stops
prematurely due to an error it first encounters after
n rows (n < the value of ConfigIterator object).

Usually the error report mechanism for this type of operation
is accomplished by combining this type of object with the
other two objects in the same table:

(1) An OwnerString object
(2) An object indicates the result of the operation.

When issuing this bulk configuration request, the SNMP
manager should provide its identifier in (1) object.
After issuing the request, it should check the value of (1)
object if it is the same with it own name.
If they are the same, then the value of the object presents
in (2) is the result from the previous operation from this
manager. Otherwise, another SNMP manager might issue
the bulk configuration to the same table before the previous
bulk operation has been completed. These two objects will
represent the last bulk operation in the table.

Represents a case-insensitive 2-letter country code taken
from ISO-3166. Unrecognized countries are represented as
empty string.

This textual convention represents a country or area code for
non-standard facilities in telematic services.

This textual convention is an extension of entPhysicalIndex.
If non-zero, the object is an entPhysicalIndex. If zero, no
appropriate entPhysicalIndex exists. Any additional semantics
are object specific.

Either the value 0, or the ifIndex value of an
interface in the ifTable.

A unique value greater than zero, for each of the
list that is defined. The object using this
convention should give all the object specific
details including the list type.

This textual convention is an extension of the
ListIndex. In addition to the ListIndex range,
this also includes 0 in its range of values.
This value could be object specific and
should be given the description of that object.
In most cases, a value 0 means that the it does
not represent any lists.

Represents time unit value in microseconds.

This TC describes an object which counts events with the
following semantics: objects of this type will be set to
zero(0) on creation and will thereafter count appropriate
events, it locks at the maximum value of 4,294,967,295 if
the counter overflows.
This TC may be used only in situations where wrapping is
not possible or extremely unlikely situation.

Represents the perceived alarm severity associated
with a service or safety affecting condition and/or
event. These are based on ITU severities, except
that info(7) is added.

cleared(1) -
Indicates a previous alarm condition has been
cleared. It is not required (unless specifically
stated elsewhere on a case by case basis) that an
alarm condition that has been cleared will produce
a notification or other event containing an
alarm severity with this value.

indeterminate(2) -
Indicates that the severity level cannot be
determined.

critical(3) -
Indicates that a service or safety affecting
condition has occurred and an immediate
corrective action is required.

major(4) -
Indicates that a service affecting condition has
occurred and an urgent corrective action is
required.

minor(5) -
Indicates the existence of a non-service affecting
condition and that corrective action should be
taken in order to prevent a more serious (for
example, service or safety affecting) condition.

warning(6) -
Indicates the detection of a potential or impending
service or safety affecting condition, before any
significant effects have been felt.

info(7) -
Indicates an alarm condition that does not
meet any other severity definition. This can
include important, but non-urgent, notices or
informational events.

Denotes a generic Internet subnet address mask.
The Internet subnet address mask is represented as the
number of contiguous 1-bit from MSB (most significant bit)
of the Internet subnet address mask.
A NMSInetAddressMask value is always interpreted within
the context of an InetAddressType value. The
InetAddressType only object or InetAddressType with
InetAddress objects which define the context must be
registered immediately before the object which uses the
NMSInetAddressMask textual convention. In other words,
the object identifiers for the InetAddressType object and
the NMSInetAddressMask object MUST have the same length
and the last sub-identifier of the InetAddressType object
MUST be 1 less than the last sub-identifier of the
NMSInetAddressMask object and MUST be 2 less than the
last sub-identifier of the NMSInetAddressMask object if
an InetAddress object is defined between InetAddressType
and NMSInetAddressMask objects.
The maximum value of the NMSInetAddressMask TC is 32 for
the value 'ipv4(1)' in InetAddressType object and 128 for
the value 'ipv6(2)' in InetAddressType object.
The value zero is object-specific and must therefore be
defined as part of the description of any object which
uses this syntax. Examples of the usage of zero might
include situations where Internet subnet mask was unknown,
or when none subnet masks need to be referenced.

IP protocol number range.

An enumerated value which provides an indication of
the general location type of a particular physical and/or
logical interface.
chassis - a system framework for mounting one or more
shelves/slots/cards.
shelf - a cabinet that holds one or more slots.
slot - card or subSlot holder.
subSlot - daughter-card holder.
port - a physical port (e.g., a DS1 or DS3 physical port).
subPort - a logical port on a physical port (e.g., a DS1
subPort on a DS3 physical port).
channel - a logical interface (e.g., a DS0 channel, signalling
channel, ATM port, other virtual interfaces).
subChannel - a sub-channel on a logical interface.

Use this TC to define objects that indicate the
physical entity and/or logical interface location
of a managed entity on a managed device. In SNMP, a
standard mechanism for indicating the physical location
of entities is via the ENTITY-MIB. However, that approach
is not satisfactory in some cases because:

1. The entity requiring a location-based naming may be
associated with an entity which can not be represented
as a physical entity in the ENTITY-MIB,
2. NMS applications may desire a more direct
name/representation of a physical entity than is
available via the ENTITY-MIB, e.g., a physical entity
which is named via a hierarchy of levels in the ENTITY-MIB.

The value of an object defined using this TC is an ASCII
string consisting of zero or more elements separated by
commas. Each element is of the form <tag> = <value>.

An example of this syntax is 'slot=5,port=3'.

The syntax of the string is formally specified using
ABNF notation (with one exception, noted below), as
follows:

location-specifier = elem *(',' elem)
; subject to
; size restriction specified in the SYNTAX
; clause below

elem = loctype '=' number

number = %x00-FFFFFFFF / %d0-4294967295

loctype = 1*32VCHAR

It is recommended that loctype use one of the enumerated
labels defined for NMSLocationClass.

(NOTE: To conform to ABNF notation as defined in RFC2234,
substitute the single-quote symbol with a double-quote
symbol in the above rules.)

A zero length of NMSLocationSpecifier is object-specific
and must be defined as part of the description of any object
which uses this syntax.

Represents time unit value in milliseconds.

Represents a network layer address. The length and format of
the address is protocol dependent as follows:
ip 4 octets
decnet 2 octets
pup obsolete
chaos 2 octets
xns 10 octets
first 4 octets are the net number
last 6 octets are the host number
x121
appletalk 3 octets
first 2 octets are the net number
last octet is the host number
clns
lat
vines 6 octets
first 4 octets are the net number
last 2 octets are the host number
cons
apollo 10 octets
first 4 octets are the net number
last 6 octets are the host number
stun 8 octets
novell 10 octets
first 4 octets are the net number
last 6 octets are the host number
qllc 6 octets
bstun 1 octet - bi-sync serial tunnel
snapshot 1 octet
atmIlmi 4 octets
x25 pvc 2 octets (12 bits)
ipv6 16 octets
cdm
nbf
bgpIgx
clnsPfx upto 20 octets
http upto 70 octets
first 4 octets are the IPv4 host
address
next 2 octets are the TCP port
number
remaining(1 upto 64) octets are
the URI

Represents the different types of network layer protocols.

The TCP or UDP port number range.

Represents the operational status of an table entry.
This textual convention allows explicitly representing
the states of rows dependent on rows in other tables.

active(1) -
Indicates this entry's RowStatus is active
and the RowStatus for each dependency is active.

activeDependencies(2) -
Indicates that the RowStatus for each dependency
is active, but the entry's RowStatus is not active.

inactiveDependency(3) -
Indicates that the RowStatus for at least one
dependency is not active.

missingDependency(4) -
Indicates that at least one dependency does
not exist in it's table.

This TC describes an object which stores a snap-shot value
with the following semantics: objects of this type will
take a snap-shot value from their associated
NMSAbsZeroBasedCounter32 type objects on creation.

A 64 bit counter associated with a
performance measurement in a previous
15 minute measurement interval. In the
case where the agent has no valid data
available for a particular interval the
corresponding object instance is not
available and upon a retrieval request
a corresponding error message shall be
returned to indicate that this instance
does not exist (for example, a noSuchName
error for SNMPv1 and a noSuchInstance for
SNMPv2 GET operation).
In a system supporting
a history of n intervals with
IntervalCount(1) and IntervalCount(n) the
most and least recent intervals
respectively, the following applies at
the end of a 15 minute interval:
- discard the value of IntervalCount(n)
- the value of IntervalCount(i) becomes that
of IntervalCount(i-1) for n >= i > 1
- the value of IntervalCount(1) becomes that
of CurrentCount
- the TotalCount, if supported, is adjusted.

This definition is based on CounterBasedGauge64 TEXTUAL
CONVENTION defined in RFC2856. The PerfHighIntervalCount
type represents a non-negative
integer, which may increase or decrease, but shall never
exceed a maximum value, nor fall below a minimum value. The
maximum value can not be greater than 2^64-1
(18446744073709551615 decimal), and the minimum value can
not be smaller than 0. The value of a PerfHighIntervalCount,
has its maximum value whenever the information being modeled
is greater than or equal to its maximum value, and has its
minimum value whenever the information being modeled is
smaller than or equal to its minimum value. If the
information being modeled subsequently decreases below
(increases above) the maximum (minimum) value, the
PerfHighIntervalCount also decreases (increases).

Note that this TC is not strictly supported in SMIv2,
because the 'always increasing' and 'counter wrap' semantics
associated with the Counter64 base type are not preserved.
It is possible that management applications which rely
solely upon the (Counter64) ASN.1 tag to determine object
semantics will mistakenly operate upon objects of this type
as they would for Counter64 objects.

This textual convention represents a limited and short-term
solution, and may be deprecated as a long term solution is
defined and deployed to replace it.

Service Access Point - is a term that denotes the means
by which a user entity in layer n+1 accesses a service
of a provider entity in layer n.

A period of time, measured in units of 1 minute.

A period of time, measured in units of 1 second.

An unsigned 64 bit integer. We use SYNTAX Counter64 for the
encoding rules.