Cisco Resource Manager has availability monitoring built in.  The devices
are pinged, and two reports are produced: Reachability Trend and Response
Time Trend.  CRM does not ping each interface.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vynita Pretorius [SMTP:vpretor AT FAST.CO DOT ZA]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 20:56
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
> Subject:      Availability of routers & interfaces
>
> -- [ From: Vynita Pretorius * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to calculate the availability of my routers and interfaces
> to acertain the total up time for a month.
> I tried using the if LastChange mib but I am told that unless I get
> the system up time it will be useless. Also I do a snmpColDump -T which
> prints out the time in seconds from 1970 and don't know how to convert to
> actual hours.
>
> Could somebody please show me an easy/ better method of calculating
> availaility.
>
> P.S. These are Cisco routers and we do have Ciscoworks 3 with AIX 4.1.5
> and
> Netview 4
>
> Thanks
> Vynita P