Description: Counts configuration changes within the printer. A configuration change is defined to be an action that results in a change to any MIB object other than those that reflect status or level, or those that act as counters or gauges. In addition, any action that results in a row being added or deleted from any table in the Printer MIB is considered a configuration change. Such changes will often affect the capability of the printer to service certain types of print jobs. Management applications may cache infrequently changed configuration information about sub units within the printer. This object should be incremented whenever the agent wishes to notify management applications that any cached configuration information for this device is to be considered 'stale'. At this point, the management application should flush any configuration information cached about this device and fetch

new configuration information.

The following are examples of actions that would cause the prtGeneralConfigChanges object to be incremented:

- Adding an output bin - Changing the media in a sensing input tray - Changing the value of prtInputMediaType

Note that the prtGeneralConfigChanges counter would not be incremented when an input tray is temporarily removed to load additional paper or when the level of an input device changes.

NOTE: The above description has been modified from RFC 1759 for clarification.