Description: The value indicates the desired method to be used by the Agent to stop a Node (i.e., change the Node's operational state to inactive(1) ).

The values have the following meaning:

other (1) - used for proprietary methods not listed in this enumeration. normal(2) - deactivate only when there is no more activity on this Node (i.e., all data flows have been completed and all sessions have been terminated). immed(3) - deactivate immediately regardless of current activities on this Node. Wait for deactivation responses (from remote Node) before changing the Node state to inactive. force(4) - deactivate immediately regardless of current activities on this Node. Do not wait for deactivation responses (from remote Node) before changing the Node state to inactive.

A write operation to this object may immediately change the operational value reflected in snaNodeOperStopMethod depending on the Agent implementation.