RE: When use data type CounterBasedGauge64, what should be diplayed, "Counter64" or "CounterBasedGauge64"?

"Counter64" is what displayed.  My question is, is "Counter64" an acceptable display unit for users?  Or user expects to see "CounterBasedGauge64" instead?

Thanks!

> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:25:02 +0000
> Subject: Re: When use data type CounterBasedGauge64, what should be diplayed, "Counter64" or "CounterBasedGauge64"?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> On 10 December 2010 06:54, W Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I need to use CounterBasedGauge64 for our own data, as there is no Gauge64.
> > In MIB file, the SYNTAX for the data is CounterBasedGauge64.  When doing a
> > snmpget for the data, what should be displayed:
> >  .1.x.x.x.x.x.x.x = Counter64: data_value; Or,
> >  .1.x.x.x.x.x.x.x = CounterBasedGauge6: data_value ?
> 
> I'd expect this to display "Counter64", since that's the underlying data type.
> "CounterBasedGauge64" is simply a Textual Convention, to amend the
> expected behaviour of such objects.  It's not really a separate type, so
> the low-level SNMP library doesn't know anything about it.  Such varbinds
> will be treated as the underlying type - i.e. Counter64
> 
> That would be my expectation, anyway.
> 
> Dave

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