Re: Problem with strip charts
Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:03:27 -0500
> The second question may be obvious to somebody who understands
>SNMP...I've only been playing with it for a couple of days. But one
>of my strip charts is displaying 'ifOutOctets' for a T1 router. Now,
>the MIB-2 description of this object is "The total number of octets
>transmitted out of the interface, including framing characters." Does
>this mean since the beginning of time? The stripchart seems to be
>displaying Octets Per Second, perhaps. What is it really doing?
>
> Thanks...
>
I can answer the second part.
yes, ifOutOctets is pretty much the same things as bytes/second. However,
since it is stored in memory as a counter (usually a 32 bit unsigned
integer value), the raw values would mean nothing. So, typically it is used
to display bytes/sec over a link by subtracting a previous value and
dividing by the polling interval.
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