RE: [cricket-users] Possible feature?

From: Jeff Allen (jra@corp.webtv.net)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 09:46:23 PDT


From: Jeff Allen <jra@corp.webtv.net>

Berg, Ivan wrote:
> Actually the problem happens on a couple of routers just when they get
> reset. The two that it has already happened to is two cisco routers whose
> power reset to clear problems.

This is a dead horse. Flog it all you want, but it comes down to this:

                a. solving the negative spike problem requires fetching
                   the time at which the coutner was reset (the sysUpTime, or
                   the goofy Cisco-specific coutner reset time) along with the
                   data.

                b. most people are happier with the rrd-max solution than
                   fetching extra stuff and trying to make sense of it on the
                   NMS side.

                c. Cricket does not support solution (a), and I will not
                   be taking the time to implement it. If you want to
                   implement it, and you can do it in a way that makes it
                   optional for those of us who don't want it, then I'll
                   happily integrate your patches.

> Like I said, it wouldn't seem to be too hard to detect a negative
> change.

It's a harder problem to solve well than you think it is. If you don't
believe me, implement it yourself and send me the patches. Then I'll
be proven wrong, and Cricket will be all the better for it. :)

-- 
Jeff R. Allen              |  jra@corp.webtv.net
WebTV Service Engineering  |  http://www.munitions.com/~jra

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