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Date and Time Fields won't Display from Universal Poller

Dozer over 14 years ago

When using the Universal Poller to collect date and time fields from a Windows system (i.e. hrSystemDate OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.2.0) what appears is what I assume it to be the translation of binary characters (boxes and odd characters). I looked in the translation functions and didn't see any date convertions. Just to make things stranger, when I do a snmpget for the same OID from a UNIX client I get the date and time returned as a string.

Does anyone know a way to retreive and display Date and Time fields from a Windows system with the Universal Poller?

0 bshopp over 14 years ago

Can you post a screenshot of what is getting returned?
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0 Dozer over 14 years ago in reply to bshopp

Sorry it took me so long to get back with the screenshot. Here it is.
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0 julrich over 14 years ago in reply to Dozer

I'm having the exact same problem, and the problem also occurs when using the SNMP monitor in APM:

I'm Trying to use this as a NTP offset monitor. Is there any way we can get APM or UnDP to properly grab this OID, or does anyone have any other suggestions on how to get NTP offset via APM or NPM???
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0 jcollazo09 over 13 years ago

Was there ever a response to your question? I have run into the same issue.

It looks like Orion UDP does not know how to handle SNMPV2-TC DateAndTime formated fields.

DateAndTime ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
    DISPLAY-HINT "2d-1d-1d,1d:1d:1d.1d,1a1d:1d"
    STATUS       current
    DESCRIPTION
            "A date-time specification.

            field  octets  contents                  range
            -----  ------  --------                  -----
              1      1-2   year*                     0..65536
              2       3    month                     1..12
              3       4    day                       1..31
              4       5    hour                      0..23
              5       6    minutes                   0..59
              6       7    seconds                   0..60
                           (use 60 for leap-second)
              7       8    deci-seconds              0..9
              8       9    direction from UTC        '+' / '-'
              9      10    hours from UTC*           0..13
             10      11    minutes from UTC          0..59

            * Notes:
            - the value of year is in network-byte order
            - daylight saving time in New Zealand is +13

            For example, Tuesday May 26, 1992 at 1:30:15 PM EDT would be
            displayed as:

                             1992-5-26,13:30:15.0,-4:0

            Note that if only local time is known, then timezone
            information (fields 8-10) is not present."
    SYNTAX       OCTET STRING (SIZE (8 | 11))

0 BillFitz_Loop1 over 13 years ago

Brandon any update from SWI on this? I am seeing the same thing on net-snmp hosts and need to be able to alert on this value.
Thanks!
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0 Aslidin over 11 years ago

seems to be UNDP still does not have support for DataAndTime format. anyone know if there is any workaround to collect timestamp from windows machines using SAM or NPM.
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0 t0ta11ed74 over 8 years ago

Ran into this problem yesterday with SAM. Appears to still exist as of 02/16!
And there is nothing in conversion formulas that help either: SolarWinds Online Help
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