[mrtg] Re: 32 versus 64 bit counters

[Peter Glanville]

>Ok, doing an SNMP walk on my 3Com 4005 produced a lot of "stuff".
However,
>after searching through waves of meaningless (to me) data I found
something
>this:
>
>~snip~
>.iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7.1 = Counter64: 4410839262
>.iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7.2 = Counter64: 4334336234
>.iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7.3 = Counter64: 41569266
>.iso.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7.4 = Counter64: 39891468
>~snip
>
>Ok, so, I have 64-bit counters it seems... and lots of them.  Can I use
>these OIDs to graph?

Yes, but if you don't know what they show, why bother?

>Also, how do I find out which OID means input, which output, errors, etc?

Try www.mibcentral.com and download their 3com drivers. In IF.mib you will
find 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.7 as ifHCInUcastPkts: "The number of packets,
delivered by this sub-layer to a higher (sub-)layer, which were not
addressed to a multicast or broadcast address at this sub-layer. This
object is a 64-bit version of ifInUcastPkts"
Now you know as much as the rest of us.

Read through the MIB, and if something strikes your fancy, plot it.

Use Getif or activeSNMP and you should see words instead of dotted numbers,
which might help you.

Good luck

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