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Re: Integer Thresholds

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Subject: Re: Integer Thresholds
From: Ray Schafer <schafer@tkg.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:26:41 -0500
REIBENSCHUH Alfred wrote:

> Hi !
>
> you could change the cisco-mib entry of bufferFail
> from INTEGER to COUNTER, recompile the mib and than
> create the mib-expression
>

That would work.  But I was hoping that I could find someway in NetView to
do this.  I don't really want to change the Vendor MIB if I can help it...


> BUT
>
> if you multiply by 3600 every delta larger than 1/3.6 per second
> will set off the threshold of 1000/hour on the premise that the
> router will generate those bufferFails in the hour which lies ahead,
> which is probable not the reason you want to do this in the first
> place
>

Yeah, but if I am only collecting once per hour, I think that it looks at
the time delta, the value delta, and calculates the units/hour based on
that.  Isn't that the way snmpCollect works?

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Ray Schafer                   | schafer@tkg.com
The Kernel Group              | Distributed Systems Management
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