Re: Wrong Type (should be Counter64): Counter32: 4278126933

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 10:02 +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Dave> Split one (64-bit) value into two (32-bit) values,
> Dave> and have the management application re-combine them.
>
> 'The management application'... I take it that 'snmp{table,get,getnext}'
> etc won't do that?

No.
In order to for the management application to merge two values
into one, it first has to know that this is appropriate.
This means having specialist knowledge about that particular MIB.

The tools we provide (snmp{get,getnext,walk,table,etc}) are
all fairly low-level SNMP utilities. They are basically
"MIB-ignorant" - they can parse the basic syntax of MIB files,
and display the results in a vaguely sensible manner. But
they don't know anything about the semantics of this data.
So they couldn't safely try to report relationships between
different MIB objects.


That level of processing requires a more specialist tool,
that *does* know about the semantics of particular MIB objects,
so could display the results in a more appropriate form.
But such a tool would typically be dedicated to that particular
MIB (rather than the more general-purpose "snmp*" tools we provide).

Dave


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