Description: This MIB module specifies the management information required to manage Fabric Policies as defined by Fibre Channel's FC-SP specification.

FC-SP uses the term 'Policy Objects', sometimes abbreviated to just 'Objects', to refer to containers used to hold the data by which Fabric Policies are specified/stored. This obviously has the potential to cause confusion between 'Policy Objects' and 'MIB objects'. The DESCRIPTIONs in this MIB module attempt to avoid such confusion by the use of different adjectives and capitalization, even though such mechanisms are less effective when used in descriptors.

Some types of Policy Objects contain multiple items of information, each of which are held in the same format within the Policy Object. In such cases, FC-SP uses the term 'Entry' to describe each instance of the common format. For example, FC-SP defines an Attribute Policy Object as containing one or more 'Attribute Entries'. Again, this MIB module attempts to avoid confusion by the use of adjectives and capitalization to distinguish an Entry within a Policy Object from an entry within a MIB table.

A Fabric's database of Policy Objects consists of a set of active Objects that are to be enforced by that Fabric, as well as non-active Objects that are not enforced. Operations defined (in FC-SP) for Policy Management are:

- Add/Get/Remove operations on individual non-active Policy Objects, - Activate/Deactivate operations on a Policy Summary Object, and - Get operations on the active Policy Summary Object and/or on individual active Policy Objects.

This MIB module has five parts:

1) Active Policy Objects - read-only MIB objects representing the set of active Policy Objects for each Fabric, 2) Activate/Deactivate Operations

- a read-write MIB object to invoke an Activate operation of the policies specified via a non-active Policy Summary Object, and - a read-write MIB object to invoke a Deactivate operation.

3) Non-active Policy Objects - read-create MIB objects to allow the creation of non-active Policy Summary Objects (which reference non-active Policy Objects), and - read-create MIB objects representing non-active Policy Objects.

4) Statistics

5) Control information and Notifications

Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 5324; see the RFC itself for full legal notices.