Description: The structure of this object is the same for Get Response PDUs and Set Request PDUs. In a SET Request the data is included in the Request PDU. In a GET Request the data is returned in the Response PDU.

This object holds the actual octets sent (for a SNMP SET) or retrieved (for a SNMP GET) request.

The byte-format structure of this object, taking into account the above description, is as follows:

octet[0] Version number of the octet representation. The version number for the initial implementation will be 0x01.

For Version number 0x01 the remaining octets will be defined as follows : octet[1] Length of the following octet string. octet[2] - [?] The DB record data as it appears in the UMC system database. For a GET PROGRESSIVE request the returned key in the DATA octets described here should be compared to the key in umc1SystemGenericDbProvIndex to identify the actual record returned.

In a GET Request the data field is empty. In a SET Request it contains the only the Data portion of database record. It does not contain the key bytes because Key for the database record is already specified in the Index umc1SystemGenericDbProvIndex.

In order to delete a database record, the Management Station *MUST* perform a SET and send an octet string of length 1 octets (for the version octet) with octet[0] set to a valid version number with NO additional data octets supplied.