Thanks Jim (and good to hear from you). I captured this issue as jdc-01
in the issues file,
and Shri indicated off-line that he will answer and follow up on
crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org.
Kais.
On 06/24/09 12:09, James Carlson wrote:
> Kais Belgaied writes:
>
>> - Multiple issues with reset stats:
>> - The loss of information accumulated since boot time may hurt the
>> diagnosability of problem with flows and links.
>> - The action needs to be privileged.
>> - suggestion: move the reset subcommand to {dl,flow}adm, with expected
>> effect of resetting the state of the datalink/flow, which includes the
>> usage statistics thereof.
>>
>
> I suggest getting rid of "reset" altogether. Besides being
> fundamentally incompatible with SNMP instrumentation, "reset" just
> isn't necessary or complete as long as you have decent delta-
> calculating tools. (And I'd really rather have a good way of
> computing deltas -- especially as a non-privileged user -- than having
> an inaccessible way to nuke kernel counters.)
>
>
