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


