SCALAR OBJECTS

Name	Type	Access	OID	Description

TABLE OBJECTS

Table ifInvStackTable

Table Name	ifInvStackTable
In MIB	IF-INVERTED-STACK-MIB
Registered at OID	.1.3.6.1.2.1.77.1.1
Table Description	A table containing information on the relationships between the multiple sub-layers of network interfaces. In particular, it contains information on which sub-layers run 'underneath' which other sub-layers, where each sub-layer corresponds to a conceptual row in the ifTable. For example, when the sub-layer with ifIndex value x runs underneath the sub-layer with ifIndex value y, then this table contains: ifInvStackStatus.x.y=active For each ifIndex value, z, which identifies an active interface, there are always at least two instantiated rows in this table associated with z. For one of these rows, z is the value of ifStackHigherLayer; for the other, z is the value of ifStackLowerLayer. (If z is not involved in multiplexing, then these are the only two rows associated with z.) For example, two rows exist even for an interface which has no others stacked on top or below it: ifInvStackStatus.z.0=active ifInvStackStatus.0.z=active This table contains exactly the same number of rows as the ifStackTable, but the rows appear in a different order. Also see Reference: ifStackTable of RFC 2863
Row Description	Information on a particular relationship between two sub- layers, specifying that one sub-layer runs underneath the other sub-layer. Each sub-layer corresponds to a conceptual row in the ifTable.

ifInvStackTable Indexes:

Name	Type	Access	Description
2 ifStackLowerLayer	INTEGER32 Legal values: 0 .. 2147483647 InterfaceIndexOrZero	NoAccess	Note: this object is based on the InterfaceIndexOrZero TEXTUAL-CONVENTION. The value of ifIndex corresponding to the lower sub-layer of the relationship, i.e., the sub-layer which runs 'below' the sub-layer identified by the corresponding instance of ifStackHigherLayer. If there is no lower sub-layer, then this object has the value 0.
1 ifStackHigherLayer	INTEGER32 Legal values: 0 .. 2147483647 InterfaceIndexOrZero	NoAccess	Note: this object is based on the InterfaceIndexOrZero TEXTUAL-CONVENTION. The value of ifIndex corresponding to the higher sub-layer of the relationship, i.e., the sub-layer which runs on 'top' of the sub-layer identified by the corresponding instance of ifStackLowerLayer. If there is no higher sub-layer (below the internetwork layer), then this object has the value 0.

Other ifInvStackTable Columns:

Name	Type	Access	Description
1 ifInvStackStatus	INTEGER RowStatus (ENUM list below)	ReadOnly	Note: this object is based on the RowStatus TEXTUAL-CONVENTION. The status of the relationship between two sub-layers. An instance of this object exists for each instance of the ifStackStatus object, and vice versa. For example, if the variable ifStackStatus.H.L exists, then the variable ifInvStackStatus.L.H must also exist, and vice versa. In addition, the two variables always have the same value. However, unlike ifStackStatus, the ifInvStackStatus object is NOT write-able. A network management application wishing to change a relationship between sub-layers H and L cannot do so by modifying the value of ifInvStackStatus.L.H, but must instead modify the value of ifStackStatus.H.L. After the ifStackTable is modified, the change will be reflected in this table.

DEPRECATED OR OBSOLETE OR HISTORIC OBJECTS

NOTIFICATIONS

TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS

These TEXTUAL-CONVENTIONS are used in other parts of the document above. They are SNMP's way of defining a datatype that is used repeatedly by other MIB objects. Any implementation implementing objects that use one of these definitions must follow its DESCRIPTION clause as well as the DESCRIPTION clause of the object itself.

Name	Type	Description
RowStatus	INTEGER Value Label/Meaning 1 active 2 notInService 3 notReady 4 createAndGo 5 createAndWait 6 destroy	The RowStatus textual convention is used to manage the creation and deletion of conceptual rows, and is used as the value of the SYNTAX clause for the status column of a conceptual row (as described in Section 7.7.1 of [2].) The status column has six defined values: - `active', which indicates that the conceptual row is available for use by the managed device; - `notInService', which indicates that the conceptual row exists in the agent, but is unavailable for use by the managed device (see NOTE below); 'notInService' has no implication regarding the internal consistency of the row, availability of resources, or consistency with the current state of the managed device; - `notReady', which indicates that the conceptual row exists in the agent, but is missing information necessary in order to be available for use by the managed device (i.e., one or more required columns in the conceptual row have not been instanciated); - `createAndGo', which is supplied by a management station wishing to create a new instance of a conceptual row and to have its status automatically set to active, making it available for use by the managed device; - `createAndWait', which is supplied by a management station wishing to create a new instance of a conceptual row (but not make it available for use by the managed device); and, - `destroy', which is supplied by a management station wishing to delete all of the instances associated with an existing conceptual row. Whereas five of the six values (all except `notReady') may be specified in a management protocol set operation, only three values will be returned in response to a management protocol retrieval operation: `notReady', `notInService' or `active'. That is, when queried, an existing conceptual row has only three states: it is either available for use by the managed device (the status column has value `active'); it is not available for use by the managed device, though the agent has sufficient information to attempt to make it so (the status column has value `notInService'); or, it is not available for use by the managed device, and an attempt to make it so would fail because the agent has insufficient information (the state column has value `notReady'). NOTE WELL This textual convention may be used for a MIB table, irrespective of whether the values of that table's conceptual rows are able to be modified while it is active, or whether its conceptual rows must be taken out of service in order to be modified. That is, it is the responsibility of the DESCRIPTION clause of the status column to specify whether the status column must not be `active' in order for the value of some other column of the same conceptual row to be modified. If such a specification is made, affected columns may be changed by an SNMP set PDU if the RowStatus would not be equal to `active' either immediately before or after processing the PDU. In other words, if the PDU also contained a varbind that would change the RowStatus value, the column in question may be changed if the RowStatus was not equal to `active' as the PDU was received, or if the varbind sets the status
InterfaceIndexOrZero	INTEGER32	This textual convention is an extension of the InterfaceIndex convention. The latter defines a greater than zero value used to identify an interface or interface sub-layer in the managed system. This extension permits the additional value of zero. 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 interface was unknown, or when none or all interfaces need to be referenced.

TREE VIEW

Tree view generated by running: snmptranslate -Tp IF-INVERTED-STACK-MIB::ifInvertedStackMIB