> I am having a "discussion" with one of my vendors about the > lack of a 64-bit > Uptime counter. > Can anyone name a vendor that has implemented this? I need > leverage to get > them to make this addition to their Private MIBs. > Since I now have boxes with 1200+ days of actual uptime, it > would be really > nice not to be loosing that data in reports. >
Good luck! I've had plenty of trouble getting vendors to implement 64 bit counters _where_they_are_needed_ for accurate statistics let alone for something like uptime. Take network appliance for example. They churn out these phat multi-gigabit port-channel'able filers, but they refuse to implement snmp v2c 64 bit counters. Instead they expect folks to write traffic monitoring applications around adding two 32 bit hi/lo counters together. I'm surprised that I haven't seen a linux distribution that has a 64 bit uptime counter. Maybe it's a kernel (and therefore backwards compatability) limitation but it's annoying when the box goes from an uptime of 497 days to zero. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
