snmp reports insane ifhcoutoctets from cisco

Nov 13, 2008 2 Replies

I've tried pulling this value using cacti as well as net-snmp to make sure that it reports correctly. This oid and oid's for other interfaces on this and other routers report similarly astronomical numbers. So basically values that i get reported for this oid is in the trillions. Is is that I'm not reading data correctly?


asdf schrieb:

1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6 ifHCInOctets and 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10 ifHCOutOctets are 64bit values (that is what HC stands for) and have a maximum of 2^64 = 18446744073709551616

After reaching this value, the counter will be reset.

If the value you get is greater, there is something wrong ;-)

Klaus

Errors in Cisco counters are not that uncommon. If you take software through a test before commiting it to customers you should also check counters. /hjj

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