Re: upgrading to 64bit counter

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:21:08AM -0800, james bond wrote:
> I am new to cricket and I have inhereted a cricket
> installation with version 1.0.3.
> I found out that when polling 10GigaBit Ethernet
> interfaces, my chart clips off at about 100MB.
> I have tried a number of methods to fix this problem
> but I failed.
> I figured that I need to upgrade to cricket version
> 1.0.5 and SNMP_Session version 1.11 to allow for snmp
> version 2.
> Can any one provide a quick how_to to simply fix this
> counter problem on the current installation. I need to
> meet a dead line comming soon.
> I am working on building a new server with a new
> installation of cricket.
> I am using Solaris 8 system with perl 5.6.0.

Have Cricket use an exec: source to call an external script that uses
NetSNMP commands to fetch the values you want.  This assumes you have
a NetSNMP build that supports SNMPv2, but that should be easy to get
from sunfreeware.com.

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