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hpicfGRpSwitchLinkCount
HP Integrated Communication Facility Generic Repeater Switch Link Count
1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.4.5.1.1.4
The number of links from this switch's ports to repeater ports in this repeater system. For internal switches, this object cannot be modified by a network management operation. For an external switch, when this object is set, a number of rows will be added to the hpicfGRpSwitchLinkTable equal to the value of this object. The values of hpicfGRpSwitchLinkIndex will be numbered from 1 to the value of this object. An instance of this object may not be modified if the corresponding instance of the hpicfGRpSwitchStatus object would be equal to 'active' both before and after the modification attempt.
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