Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday

2018-04-03 Thread Pushpa Thimmaiah
Thank you Stuart Henderson. On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018/04/03 15:25, Pushpa Thimmaiah wrote: > > Thank you Magnus Fromreide, Anders Wallin and Stuart Henderson for the > reply. > > > > Stuart Henderson, > > > > I am using net-snmp.5.7.1. Object sysUpTime

Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday

2018-04-03 Thread Pushpa Thimmaiah
Thank you Magnus Fromreide, Anders Wallin and Stuart Henderson for the reply. Stuart Henderson, I am using net-snmp.5.7.1. Object sysUpTime uses API netsnmp_get_agent_uptime() and they inturn uses gettimeofday(). If time on device changes after snmpd starts then sysUpTime value is confusing. Sc

Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday

2018-03-28 Thread Anders Wallin
Maybe not the perfect answer, but this is what the FAQ says "The system uptime (sysUpTime) returned is wrong! --- Oh no it's not. The defined meaning of 'sysUpTime' is "the time ... since the *network management* portion of the syst

Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday

2018-03-28 Thread Magnus Fromreide
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:49:48PM +0530, Pushpa Thimmaiah wrote: > Hi All, > > I believed that sysUpTime is counter that increments every seconds. But In > net-snmp code , > sysUpTime being calculated as difference between 'snmpd-starttime' and > 'current time' . > > I would like to know reaso

RE: sysUpTime discrepancy

2013-09-23 Thread Mike Moreton
any systemBootTime > that tells, as a DateAndTime string, when the system was last booted. Personally I'd also like a numeric value (with longer wrap period) as it makes the calculations easier! Mike. > Subject: Re: sysUpTime discrepancy > From: [email protected] > To: mjvm...

Re: sysUpTime discrepancy

2013-09-19 Thread Magnus Fromreide
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 07:56 +0100, Mike Moreton wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:46 +, Andy Cress wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Currently net-snmp measures sysUpTime relative to when the snmpd > > starts, and perhaps that is often the same as the overall system > > uptime, but in some systems, th

Re: sysUpTime discrepancy

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Moreton
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:46 +, Andy Cress wrote: > Folks, > > Currently net-snmp measures sysUpTime relative to when the snmpd > starts, and perhaps that is often the same as the overall system > uptime, but in some systems, the services could be restarted without > rebooting, so I am proposin

Re: sysUpTime discrepancy

2013-09-13 Thread Magnus Fromreide
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:46 +, Andy Cress wrote: > Folks, > > Currently net-snmp measures sysUpTime relative to when the snmpd > starts, and perhaps that is often the same as the overall system > uptime, but in some systems, the services could be restarted without > rebooting, so I am proposin

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-19 Thread Suma C
On 1/18/06, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:11 +0530, Suma C wrote: > > For Linux , heres wt I have done : > [snip] > > Have tested it on my system(FC1 2.6.9 ) for sysUpTime > > Tested in what way? > What *exactly* did you test - what did you expect to see

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Shield
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:11 +0530, Suma C wrote: > For Linux , heres wt I have done : [snip] > Have tested it on my system(FC1 2.6.9 ) for sysUpTime Tested in what way? What *exactly* did you test - what did you expect to see, and what did you actually see? What sorts of time-shift have

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-18 Thread Suma C
For Linux , heres wt I have done : snmp_vars.c : long my_starttime; int init_agent(const char *app) { int r = 0; /* * get current time (ie, the time the agent started) */ gettimeofday(&starttime, NULL); starttime.tv_sec--; starttime.tv_usec += 100L;

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Shield
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:18 +0530, Suma C wrote: > The function get_uptime is in snmplib/system.c No wonder I couldn't find a system man page for it! OK - checking the logs, 'get_uptime()' seems to go back to the very start of the UCD-SNMP project, and is part of the code we inherited from CMU.

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-18 Thread Suma C
The function get_uptime is in snmplib/system.c Its usage is in apps/snmptrap.c and agent/mibgroup/host/hr_system.c and thanks for considering the mail Regards Suma PS : the code: /* * Returns uptime in centiseconds(!). */ long get_uptime(void) { #if !defined(solaris2) && !defined(linux)

Re: sysUpTime

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Shield
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:01 +0530, Suma C wrote: > Can we use the /proc/uptime or even better the library function : > get_uptime . A library function like that would certainly be an idea. But the big question is how portable it would be. Remember that the Net-SNMP suite runs on a wide variet

Re: sysUptime

2004-10-26 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:46:41 -0400, Binh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Binh> Since sysUpTime is measured in one hundredth of a second, it Binh> will take approximately 497 days for this 32 bit counter to Binh> wrap. 497 days is not long enough because some telco equipment Binh> is let to