This object permits management of this table by facilitating actions such as row creation, construction, and destruction. The value of this object has no effect on whether other objects in this conceptual row can be modified. An entry may not exist in the 'active' state unless all objects in the entry have a defined appropriate value. For objects with DEFVAL clauses, the management station does not need to specify the value of these objects in order for the row to transit to the 'active' state; the default value for these objects is used. For objects that do not have DEFVAL clauses, the network manager MUST specify the value of these objects prior to this row transitioning to the 'active' state. When this object transitions to 'active', all objects in this row SHOULD be written to non-volatile (stable) storage. Read-create objects in this row MAY be modified. When an object in a row with smfCfgIfRowStatus of 'active' is changed, then the updated value MUST be reflected in SMF and this new object value MUST be written to non-volatile storage.