| Description | Maximum idle time of the policy rule in seconds.
If no packet to which the policy rule applies passes the
middlebox for the specified midcomRuleMaxIdleTime, then
the policy rule enters the termination state timedOut(9).
A value of 0 indicates that the policy does not require
an individual idle time and that instead, a default idle
time chosen by the middlebox is used.
A value of 4294967295 ( = 2^32 - 1 ) indicates that the
policy does not time out if it is idle.
This object is used as input to a request for
establishing a policy enable rule as well as for
indicating the properties of an established policy rule.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a
value of either newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7),
then this object can be written by a manager in order to
specify a maximum idle time for the policy rule to be
requested. Writing to this object in any state others
than newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7) will always
fail with an 'inconsistentValue' error.
Note that this error code is SNMP specific. If the MIB
module is used with other protocols than SNMP, errors with
similar semantics specific to those protocols should be
returned.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the
value enabled(8), then this object indicates the maximum
idle time of the policy rule. Note that even if a maximum
idle time greater than zero was requested, the middlebox
may not be able to support maximum idle times and set the
value of this object to zero when entering state
enabled(8).
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a
value other than newEntry(1), setting(2), reserved(7), or
enabled(8), then the value of this object is irrelevant. |