Description: When retrieved, this object delivers the maximum lifetime in seconds of all member rules of this group, i.e., of all rows in the midcomRuleTable that have the same values for midcomRuleOwner and midcomGroupIndex.

Successfully writing to this object modifies the lifetime of all member policies. Successfully writing a value of 0 terminates all member policies and implicitly deletes the group as soon as all member entries are removed from the midcomRuleTable.

Note that after a group's lifetime is expired or is set to 0, still the corresponding entry in the midcomGroupTable will exist as long as terminated member policy rules are stored as entries in the

midcomRuleTable.

Writing to this object is processed by the MIDCOM-MIB implementation by choosing a lifetime value that is greater than 0 and less than or equal to the minimum of the requested value and the value specified by object midcomConfigMaxLifetime:

0 <= lt_granted <= MINIMUM(lt_requested, lt_maximum)

where: - lt_granted is the actually granted lifetime by the MIDCOM-MIB implementation - lt_requested is the requested lifetime of the MIDCOM client - lt_maximum is the value of object midcomConfigMaxLifetime

SNMP SET requests to this object may be rejected or the value of the object after an accepted SET operation may be less than the value that was contained in the SNMP SET request.