This object class represents the manageable physical components of a network element such as circuit packs (e.g., Fan, Power supply). An equipment is contained within an equipment holder, and may not itself contain other equipment. There is only one equipment object for identifying replaceable and non-replaceable units. For each replaceable hardware unit there shall be an equipment object. The modelling of non-replaceable units as equipment objects is optional.
For a general overview refer to the associated supporting document equipmentModel.

MTOSI Specific Documentation
This class is applicable to MTOSI. The specific operations and relationships that apply to MTOSI are listed in SD2-11. 
For MTOSI, references to "NMS" can be interpreted as "Requesting OS" and references to "EMS" can be interpreted as "Target OS", i.e., the OS that fulfills requests from another OS. 
The statements concerning Object Lifecycle, i.e., whether the object can be created by the NMS or EMS, are not particularly meaningful for MTOSI, since MTOSI does not define management systems with fixed roles such as the NMS and EMS entities in MTNM.

Object Lifecycle: Created and deleted by EMS and NMS.

Object Creation Notification Issued? Yes
Object Deletion Notification Issued? Yes
Object Discovery Notification Issued? Yes
