| Description | The number of seconds left in the report currently being
collected. When this object is modified by the management
station, a new collection is started, possibly aborting a
currently running report. The new value is used as the
requested duration of this report, and is immediately loaded
into the associated dsmonPdistTopNCtlDuration object.
When the report finishes, the probe will automatically start
another collection with the same initial value of
dsmonPdistTopNCtlTimeRemaining. Thus the management station
may simply read the resulting reports repeatedly, checking
the startTime and duration each time to ensure that a report
was not missed or that the report parameters were not
changed.
While the value of this object is non-zero, it decrements by
one per second until it reaches zero. At the time that this
object decrements to zero, the report is made accessible in
the dsmonPdistTopNTable, overwriting any report that may be
there.
When this object is modified by the management station, any
associated entries in the dsmonPdistTopNTable shall be
deleted. |