HCNUM-TC DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN

IMPORTS

MODULE-IDENTITY, mib-2, Counter64
    FROM SNMPv2-SMI
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
    FROM SNMPv2-TC;

hcnumTC MODULE-IDENTITY

LAST-UPDATED "200006080000Z"

ORGANIZATION "IETF OPS Area"
CONTACT-INFO
      "        E-mail: mibs@ops.ietf.org
               Subscribe: majordomo@psg.com
                 with msg body: subscribe mibs

               Andy Bierman
               Cisco Systems Inc.
               170 West Tasman Drive
               San Jose, CA 95134 USA
               +1 408-527-3711
               abierman@cisco.com

               Keith McCloghrie
               Cisco Systems Inc.
               170 West Tasman Drive
               San Jose, CA 95134 USA
               +1 408-526-5260
               kzm@cisco.com

               Randy Presuhn
               BMC Software, Inc.
               Office 1-3141
               2141 North First Street
               San Jose,  California 95131 USA
               +1 408 546-1006
               rpresuhn@bmc.com"
DESCRIPTION
      "A MIB module containing textual conventions
       for high capacity data types. This module
       addresses an immediate need for data types not directly
       supported in the SMIv2. This short-term solution
       is meant to be deprecated as a long-term solution
       is deployed."
REVISION        "200006080000Z"
DESCRIPTION
      "Initial Version of the High Capacity Numbers
       MIB module, published as RFC 2856."
::= { mib-2 78 }

CounterBasedGauge64 ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

STATUS       current
DESCRIPTION
      "The CounterBasedGauge64 type represents a non-negative
      integer, which may increase or decrease, but shall never
      exceed a maximum value, nor fall below a minimum value. The
      maximum value can not be greater than 2^64-1
      (18446744073709551615 decimal), and the minimum value can

      not be smaller than 0.  The value of a CounterBasedGauge64
      has its maximum value whenever the information being modeled
      is greater than or equal to its maximum value, and has its
      minimum value whenever the information being modeled is
      smaller than or equal to its minimum value.  If the
      information being modeled subsequently decreases below
      (increases above) the maximum (minimum) value, the
      CounterBasedGauge64 also decreases (increases).

      Note that this TC is not strictly supported in SMIv2,
      because the 'always increasing' and 'counter wrap' semantics
      associated with the Counter64 base type are not preserved.
      It is possible that management applications which rely
      solely upon the (Counter64) ASN.1 tag to determine object
      semantics will mistakenly operate upon objects of this type
      as they would for Counter64 objects.

      This textual convention represents a limited and short-term
      solution, and may be deprecated as a long term solution is
      defined and deployed to replace it."
SYNTAX Counter64

ZeroBasedCounter64 ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION

STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
      "This TC describes an object which counts events with the
      following semantics: objects of this type will be set to
      zero(0) on creation and will thereafter count appropriate
      events, wrapping back to zero(0) when the value 2^64 is
      reached.

      Provided that an application discovers the new object within
      the minimum time to wrap it can use the initial value as a
      delta since it last polled the table of which this object is
      part.  It is important for a management station to be aware
      of this minimum time and the actual time between polls, and
      to discard data if the actual time is too long or there is
      no defined minimum time.

      Typically this TC is used in tables where the INDEX space is
      constantly changing and/or the TimeFilter mechanism is in
      use.

      Note that this textual convention does not retain all the
      semantics of the Counter64 base type. Specifically, a
      Counter64 has an arbitrary initial value, but objects
      defined with this TC are required to start at the value

      zero.  This behavior is not likely to have any adverse
      effects on management applications which are expecting
      Counter64 semantics.

      This textual convention represents a limited and short-term
      solution, and may be deprecated as a long term solution is
      defined and deployed to replace it."
SYNTAX Counter64

END