Monitoring router reboots

[Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM>]

>I want to do some surveilence on my routers with the help of NV5.1.
>Alert me when the router has been rebooted via polling it.
>One way to do it may be to poll the sysUptime mib-II variable and check if
>the value is less than the previous value, but how do I configure this in
>NW and what about the maximum value of the systemUptime variable ?

Any router, I expect, would generate a coldstart trap when it comes up from a
reboot. That is one of
the generic traps (warm start, cold start, link up, link down, etc).  I would
just use that.

Cordially,

Leslie Clark
IBM Global Services - Network & Systems Management - Detroit