Description: A table of non-active Policy Summary Objects available to be activated.

The functionality of this table deviates slightly from FC-SP in that FC-SP specifies that the only Policy Summary Object is the Active one, i.e., FC-SP does not store non-active Policy Summary Objects in the Policy Database. Instead, FC-SP requires a new Policy Summary Object to be created for, and embedded within, every Activate (APS) request. Thus, the newly created Policy Summary Object outlasts the APS request only as the new active Policy Summary Object and only if the APS succeeds. In contrast, the Activate operation provided by this MIB module consists of two steps:

1) create a non-active Policy Summary Object as a set of entries in this table describing a new configuration; 2) activate a Policy Summary Object (stored as a set of entries in this table) using t11FcSpPoOperActivate.

These two steps are only loosely connected, i.e., the result of the first operation is a non-active Policy Summary Object that is retained (in this table) even if it isn't immediately activated. Even after an attempt to activate it succeeds or fails, a non-active Policy Summary Object is not deleted, but is retained and still available for subsequent modification/re-use.