Hi,
The data for ifInOctets and ifOutOctets which I collect and graph is
definately the change in the counter value. On Netview for NT, the
snmpcollect database has a field for startTime (the time of the last
collect), and a field for endTime (the time of the current collect).
This would indicate to me to be the way netview calculates the change in
the counter value.
Regards,
Matt Moore
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Darren Mitchelmore [SMTP:Darren_Mitchelmore@NAG.NATIONAL.COM.AU]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 1:09 PM
>To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
>Subject: Re: data collection on switches
>
>Hello,
>
>I have also been interested in the values that snmpCollect stores. The
>only doco I have seen so far is from the dynatext which isn't detailed. It
>discusses that Inoctets is a snmp counter and as such will be stored in
>floating point value. This does not look like the values I see.
>
>I believe that the figures I see are not the pure counter value.
>They appear to be the change in the counter value since last poll devided
>by the polling interval in seconds. ?
>
>Has anyone looked into this further or found documentation ?
>
>Darren.
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