"Dejan Mijailovic" <dejan.mijailovic AT inquent DOT com> writes:

> David.
> 
> They don't need to reset.
> 
> What you see is a TOTAL amount of bits In or Out of Interface.
> What you need is real counter. If you do "snmpget" you will get the BIG
> number, but snmpCollect should
> collect bits (or octets) per second. 

> It always does it if the MIB object you collecting is a (COUNTER)
> and in you case, it is.  Check your mibExpr.conf file. Don't forget,
> it is a postFix math.

If ever you need to do this magic on something other than a COUNTER, 

        man mib.coerce  

You can coerce integers to be treated as counters.   I can't remember
all the details, but I was pleased to find out that snmpcollect could
do this stuff on mibExpr.conf  expressions as well as individual
OID's. 


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Todd H.
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