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Support for 64 bit counters

Is version 9 going to support snmpv2c and high capacity counters for all applications and not just NPM?

With the advent of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces SNMP Graph and other tools will become almost useless without this as the number wraps are so fast they produce erroroneous results.

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chris.lapoint

We didn't enhance any additional applications with 64-bit counters, but this is definitely in the roadmap for the releases planned for the second half of this year. If you could provide us a prioritized list of the tools you'd like to see implemented, we'd really appreciate this for our planning.

By SNMP v2c, are you most interested in the use of the SNMP v2c "GetBulk" command for increasing SNMP throughput and reducing packet overhead for each data bit? If so, we've implemented this in several tools already, including Switch Port Mapper, IP Network Browser, and MIB Browser. If not, could you elaborate?

Chris LaPoint
Sr. Product Manager
SolarWinds

FormerMember

Hi,
We are mainly interest in the performance montioring tools, SNMP graph particularly as we can use it for one second granularity when monitoring interfaces.

Any performance monitoring tool that monitors Gigabit interfaces needs the high capacity counters.

Many thanks

Ian

chris.lapoint

FYI, I just confirmed that you can navigate to the 64 bit counters in SNMP Real Time graph:

ifHCInOctets 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6

After some checking, I believe that Bandwidth Gauge is the only remaining performance monitoring tool that requires upgrade to 64-bit counters. If you see any others, please let us know.

Chris LaPoint
Sr. Product Manager
SolarWinds

FormerMember

You can see it but get an error when trying to poll it. The app use snmpv1 if you look using an analyser.

When using a new command line tool it works, so its not the switch.