Re: OPAQUE DOUBLE

Hello Dave,

thanks for your confirmation. We were trying to avoid string
representation of floats since it is difficult to compare them (e.g. to
preset thresholds).

We will consider fixed point as you are suggesting.

Milan

On Tue, October 2, 2007 10:06 am, Dave Shield wrote:
> On 02/10/2007, Milan_Tvarozek@tempest.sk <Milan_Tvarozek@tempest.sk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>> net snmp clients (snmpwalk and snmpget) understand types OPAQUE_DOUBLE
>> and OPAQUE_FLOAT.
>>
>> However, these are not recognized by HP OpenView and other clients.
>>
>>
>> Does somebody know a workaround? Is the any way how to teach HP
>> OpenView
>> (e.g via MIBs) to correctly interpret OPAQUE_DOUBLE and OPAQUE_FLOAT?
>>
>
> No.
> Interpreting these two types requires explicit code, to convert between
> the on-the-wire representation of the value, and the actual float value
> itself.
>
> If the toolkit you are using does not support these types, then no amount
> of fiddling with MIB files or configuration settings will make it
> recognise them. You'd need to supply extra code. (Which is not really
> possible with commercial products like OpenView).
>
>
> Alternatively, consider using a string-based representation of the
> float value. Or a fixed-point value, using an integer-based object
> defined with suitable units.
>
> Dave
>
>
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