Description: This reports the status of a peer entry. A value of valid indicates a normal entry that is in use by the agent. A value of underCreation indicates a newly created entry which isn't yet in use because the creating management station is still setting values.

The value of invalid indicates the entry is no longer in use and the agent is free to delete the entry at any time. A management station is also free to use an entry in the invalid state.

Entries are created by setting a value of createRequest. Only non-existent or invalid entries can be set to createRequest. Upon receiving a valid createRequest, the agent will create an entry in the underCreation state. This object can not be set to a value of underCreation directly, entries can

only be created by setting a value of createRequest. Entries that exist in other than the invalid state can not be set to createRequest.

Entries with a value of underCreation are not used by the system and the management station can change the values of other objects in the table entry. Management stations should also remember to configure values in the mioxPeerEncTable with the same peer index value as this peer entry.

An entry in the underCreation state can be set to valid or invalid. Entries in the underCreation state will stay in that state until 1) the agent times them out, 2) they are set to valid, 3) they are set to invalid. If an agent notices an entry has been in the underCreation state for an abnormally long time, it may decide the management station has failed and invalidate the entry. A prudent agent will understand that the management station may need to wait for human input and will allow for that possibility in its determination of this abnormally long period.

Once a management station has completed all fields of an entry, it will set a value of valid. This causes the entry to be activated.

Entries in the valid state may also be set to makeCall or clearCall to make or clear X.25 calls to the peer. After such a set request the entry will still be in the valid state. Setting a value of makeCall causes the agent to initiate an X.25 call request to the peer specified by the entry. Setting a value of clearCall causes the agent to initiate clearing one X.25 call present to the peer. Each set request will initiate another call or clear request (up to the maximum allowed); this means that management stations that fail to get a response to a set request should query to see if a call was in fact placed or cleared before

retrying the request. Entries not in the valid state can not be set to makeCall or clearCall.

The values of makeCall and clearCall provide for circuit control on devices which perform Ethernet Bridging using static circuit assignment without address recognition; other devices which dynamically place calls based on destination addresses may reject such requests.

An agent that (re)creates a new entry because of a set with createRequest, should also (re)create a mioxPeerEncTable entry with a mioxPeerEncIndex of 1, and a mioxPeerEncType of 204 (hex CC).