Re: sysUpTime question

2009-11-29 Thread asaf
2009/11/26 a...@lingnu.com: looks like the implementation of sysUpTime actually returns the time passed since the snmp daemon has started: 1. why not return the real system uptime ? (as the MIB name suggests) Because that's not what the sysUpTime value reports. See the DESCRIPTION clause

Re: sysUpTime question

2009-11-29 Thread asaf
2009/11/26 a...@lingnu.com: looks like the implementation of sysUpTime actually returns the time passed since the snmp daemon has started: 1. why not return the real system uptime ? (as the MIB name suggests) Because that's not what the sysUpTime value reports. See the DESCRIPTION clause

Re: sysUpTime question

2009-11-29 Thread asaf
2009/11/26 a...@lingnu.com: looks like the implementation of sysUpTime actually returns the time passed since the snmp daemon has started: 1. why not return the real system uptime ? (as the MIB name suggests) Because that's not what the sysUpTime value reports. See the DESCRIPTION clause

Re: sysUpTime question

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Shield
2009/11/29 a...@lingnu.com: the issue could have been resolved by sampling the system uptime when the snmp daemon starts, and using it to calculate the sysUptime value, instead of relaying on the system clock But the value of system uptime when the agent starts is 0, by definition. The SNMP

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2009-11-29 Thread bheemesh v
Hello, I am in the mailing list for quite sometime now (may be few months). In the official portal of net-snmp we get to see change;Log for the latest release. But is there any link, or mailing list which gives updates about the recent stable releases like 5.4.2.1? Every day so many questions

Re: sysUpTime question

2009-11-29 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Dave Shield d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.ukwrote: 2009/11/29 a...@lingnu.com: the issue could have been resolved by sampling the system uptime when the snmp daemon starts, and using it to calculate the sysUptime value, instead of relaying on the system clock