Description: The status of this conceptual row entry of IP Interface table. This object is used to manage the creation and deletion of conceptual rows.

The status column has six defined values:

- 'active', which indicates that the conceptual row is available for use by the managed device;

- 'notInService', which indicates that the conceptual row exists in the agent, but is unavailable for use by the managed device (see NOTE below);

- 'notReady', which indicates that the conceptual row exists in the agent, but is missing information necessary in order to be available for use by the managed device;

- 'createAndGo', which is supplied by a management station wishing to create a new instance of a conceptual row and to have its status automatically set to active, making it available for use by the managed device;

- 'createAndWait', which is supplied by a management station wishing to create a new instance of a conceptual row (but not make it available for use by the managed device); and,

- 'destroy', which is supplied by a management station wishing to delete all of the instances associated with an existing conceptual row.