mte Trigger Sample Type

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The type of sampling to perform. An 'absoluteValue' sample requires only a single sample to be meaningful, and is exactly the value of the object at mteTriggerValueID at the sample time. A 'deltaValue' requires two samples to be meaningful and is thus not available for testing until the second and subsequent samples after the object at mteTriggerValueID is first found to exist. It is the difference between the two samples. For unsigned values it is always positive, based on unsigned arithmetic. For signed values it can be positive or negative. For SNMP counters to be meaningful they should be sampled as a 'deltaValue'. For 'deltaValue' mteTriggerDeltaTable contains further parameters. If only 'existence' is set in mteTriggerTest this object has no meaning.