Re: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Story
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:49:52 -0700 Wes wrote: WH> JW> I can collect these metrics into Count32 and Count64 variables WH> JW> respectively, but management systems using these MIBs will see WH> JW> rollovers at 29 and 48. Is this acceptable? WH> WH> No, unfortunately, it is not. The management sta

Re: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:22:13 -0700, Judith Walker > said: JW> Thanks to the responder (Wes). It's not the answer that I wanted to JW> hear, but I greatly appreciate the response, regardless. Well, glad to be of help. Unfortunately that's the only answer the SNMP protocol allows for :

RE: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Judith Walker
Thanks to the responder (Wes). It's not the answer that I wanted to hear, but I greatly appreciate the response, regardless. Judy -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills.

Re: Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
JW> I can collect these metrics into Count32 and Count64 variables JW> respectively, but management systems using these MIBs will see JW> rollovers at 29 and 48. Is this acceptable? No, unfortunately, it is not. The management station will get skewed data it doesn't expect if you do it that way

Counter recommendation in SNMP

2010-09-09 Thread Judith Walker
I have a question with respect to counters in SNMP and the rollover of counters. If anyone can point me to a precedence or recommendation for the metrics reporting that I intend to do, I would be very grateful. I'm writing a MIB that supports reports metrics from hardware/firmware. Since hard