| Description | The next unused group index available for configuring
a new redundancy group for this group type.
In order to avoid unnecessary collisions between competing
management stations, `adjacent' retrievals of this object
should give different index values.
But in order to prevent leaks of unused indexes, it is
acceptable to cycle through and report unused indexes again
if all of the indexes have already been retrieved previously,
yet some remain unused. So the retrieval of an index
should not be considered a permanent longterm reservation.
If there are no more unused group indexes available, the
managed system should return 0.
Note: 0 may be an acceptable group index on some
managed systems. |