Description

Makes the physical table entry that is associated with the xPhysicalIndex become stale. In this context, “stale” means that the entry details are present in the agent memory but are not displayed during any SNMP operation. The index that was allocated to a stale entry is not allocated to another entry.

When you make an entry become stale, the instances of xPhysicalIndex in the entAliasMappingTable, entLPMappingTable and entPhysicalContainsTable are also deleted. The deletion maintains integrity among the various Entity MIB tables. Before you make an entry stale, you might want to store the entries that are to be deleted from the tables.

The physical table entry can be made available or “live” again by calling the makePhysicalTableEntryLive() functions, which is described in makePhysicalTableEntryLive().