[mrtg] Re: RouterUptime

[Tim Kennedy]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Christopher E. Brown wrote:

> 	Yes, it does.  However, the label is RouterUptime, *not*
> RouterSNMPUptime.
> 
> 	If one is measuring the SNMP system, or using a SNMP
> monitoring agent reporting SNMP subsystem uptime is a good thing.
> However, reporting SNMP uptime as RouterUptime is not.
> 
> 	Reporting one as the other simply because on many systems they
> are always the same is silly.
> 

You seem to be correct.  This is from rfc1213-mib.txt

          sysUpTime OBJECT-TYPE
              SYNTAX  TimeTicks
              ACCESS  read-only
              STATUS  mandatory
              DESCRIPTION
                      "The time (in hundredths of a second) since the
                      network management portion of the system was last
                      re-initialized."
              ::= { system 3 }

Therefore the definition of system.sysUptime is, in fact the network
managaement susbsystem uptime, and not the host system total power on
uptime, and should not be represented as such.

-Tim

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