Description: This object indicates the IMA group auto restart synchronization state. When the group auto-restart feature is enabled, the IMA unit runs in an enhanced IMA GSM mode.

The object transits to one of following four states:

disable auto-restart is disabled.

inProgress auto-restart is enabled. The enhanced GSM is in this state when the group is added or restarted.

loopbackSync IMA group has sync'd up to NE when all links in the group are in local loopback.

tempSync IMA group has sync'd up to FE, but FE group Id is not the same as the expected FE group Id, but all ima links in the group are receiving the same IMA ID, but the IMA ID is not the same as the NE IMA ID.

feSync a transition state when IMA group has sync'd up to FE group i.e., the FE IMA ID is the same as the expected IMA ID given by cimaGrpRxImaIdExpected.

or the FE IMA ID is not the same as cimaGrpRxImaIdExpected, but the NE group is restarted with relearn option.

or object cimaGrpRxImaIdExpected is value of '-1' and the NE group is restarted with reuse/relearn option.

The agent always returns 'disable' if the auto-restart feature is disabled.