Good idea.  That works. Thanks a lot.

(Although now I've run into MLM no longer allowing monitoring of the default 
route
instance of the nexthopentry in the route table mib for "changes", which I was 
using
to see if the default route changed on certain routers.  Rather than beat 
against IBM
for a long time, I'll just write my own cron jobs to do this.)

Ray Schafer wrote:

> Steve Francis wrote:
>
> > Can't monitor sysuptime with Netview's Data Collection and Thresholds 
> > facility,
> > as that only has thresholds that exceed limits, while in this case I want a
> > threshold tripped if its less than a limit.
> >
>
> Have you thought about editing /etc/mibExpr.conf and create an expression that
> divides (100 * polling interval) by the system uptime.  The data collection
> thresholding can be done looking for this number to exceed a threshold.
>
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