I have confirmed that the data stored in the IMDC goes negative when it exceeds the 32bit boundary, but can't find my Postgres passwords so I can look at the table structures. eerrr.
dennis.oreilly wrote: > On 2012-11-04, at 6:15 PM, Paul Carlson wrote: > > > I think I've answered my own question. The actual number it fails on is > > 2,147,483,648 (the 32nd bit). > > > > So the question becomes; is IM just unable to chart data greater then > > 31bits, or does it also store values retrieved from larger counters as > > 32bit signed ints as well. > > > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > If you change your probe to use SNMPv2c it should fix the problem. You do > this under "Set Probe". > > SNMPv1 uses 32 bit counters. SNMPv2c uses 64 bit counters. Another bonus of > SNMPv2c over v1 is that it can differentiate counts of multicast packets from > broadcast packets. > > A best practice with Intermapper is to change the default for new devices > from SNMPv1 to SNMPv2c. You do this under Edit Server Settings. All modern > devices support v2c. (I don't know why Dartware hasn't made this the default > setting.) > > For legacy maps it's worth going through all of your maps and devices and > changing SNMPv1 to SNMPv2c in my opinion. > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com > > Post generated using Mail2Forum (http://www.mail2forum.com) -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.intermapper.com/viewtopic.php?p=4268#4268 ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com
