Textual Convention: Enumerated Values Form

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The Enumerated Values form displays the details of an enumerated value pair, if any, for a selected MIB variable. For example, the IF-MIB's ifAdminStatus variable includes enumerated values for three statuses, as shown in the following example from the MIB file's source text file:

ifAdminStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
1 up,
2 down),
3 testing
}
ACCESS read-write
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION
"The desired state of the interface. The testing(3) state
indicates that no operational packets can be passed."
::= { ifEntry 7 }

Enumerated Value Basic Attributes
Attribute Description
String Value The text value that is associated with the Numeric Value for the selected MIB variable.
Numeric Value The numeric value that is associated with the String Value for the selected MIB variable.
MIB Variable

The name of the selected MIB variable that contains enumerated values.

For example, ifAdminStatus is an IF-MIB OID that contains enumerated values.

MIB

The name value that is stored at the beginning of the MIB definitions to identify the MIB.

For example, IF-MIB is the name of the MIB:

IF-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

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