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.