[mrtg] Re: Newbie Question...

[Dan Tappin]

>> and got a ton of data back.  I figured that I want to plot:
>> 
>> system.sysUpTime.0
>> 
>> to get my uptime.
>> 
>> My question is how to a configure my new MRTG config file to poll this and
>> plot it?  Also how do I convert this to x.x.x.x.x numerical format.  This is
>> the real fuzzy part to me.
> 
> The value returned from sysUpTime represents the number of milliseconds
> since the device was last rebooted/reset. Therefore this number is constantly
> increasing. If you subtract that number from the current date, you'll
> arrive at the specific date/time the box was reset.  You could poll sysUpTime
> through some external script (or whatever), convert the data into
> days-hours-min-sec, but after that is done, I don't see any usefull purpose
> in plotting the result.

It's not really usefull... I was just going for something like the netcraft
plots and in general to get a better grasp on SNMP.

Thanks,

Dan

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