CISCO-ENTITY-PROVISIONING-MIB
This MIB module defines the objects that support provisioning of 'container' class physical entities. Provisioning sets up a 'container' to hold a specified physical entity. This allows a management client to configure the specified physical entity, including all of its subordinates physical entities, before installation. Consider a network manager of a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) planning for the installation of the hardware necessary to support several new subscribers. This network manager wants to pre-configure the ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) modems that will support these subscribers, thereby reducing the bring-up time once they arrive. Under normal circumstances this would not be possible. However, provisioning allows the network manager to 'create' the physical entities that represent the new modems. In essence, the device simulates the installation of the new modules into the system. This has the effect of creating all conceptual rows in all the necessary tables that support the physical entity and all its subordinate physical entities (e.g., entPhysicalTable, entAliasMappingTable, and ifTable).