This reports the desired administrative, enabled or disabled, status of the RSVP-TE protocol on this device, the global switch controlling whether the device participates in MPLS traffic-engineered tunnel signaling at all. Because several other RSVP-TE objects, like the persistent-tunnel retry interval, explicitly can't be changed while this is enabled or the operational status is up, an admin needing to reconfigure core RSVP-TE timing parameters must first disable this and confirm the operational status has gone down before those changes will be accepted. For example, an admin wanting to change the retry interval would first need to set this to disabled and verify the operational status reflects down before the retry-interval object accepts a new value.