The management name of a domain in which the local system is participating. The zero-length name corresponds to the 'no management-domain' state which is the initial value at installation-time if not configured otherwise. Note that the zero-length name does not correspond to an operational management domain, and a device does not send VTP advertisements while in the 'no management-domain' state. A device leaves the 'no management-domain' state when it obtains a management-domain name, either through configuration or through inheriting the management-domain name from a received VTP advertisement.

When the value of an existing instance of this object is modified by network management, the local system should re- initialize its VLAN information (for the given management domain) as if it had just been configured with a management domain name at installation time.