Can check_snmp decode a date/time string?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Ben Conrad wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm pulling info from an APC ups and my return string (via snmpget) looks
> like:
>
> SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.318.1.1.1.2.2.3.0 = 0:0:34:00.00
>>>> 34 minutes
>
> When I run check_snmp against this oid I get:
> SNMP OK - *198000*
>
> Does anybody know what check_snmp is doing to convert 0:0:34:00.00 to
> 198000?
>
> I saw this in the --help but I'm not sure how to apply it:
>
> "- All evaluation methods other than PR, STR, and SUBSTR expect that the
> value
>  returned from the SNMP query is an unsigned integer."
>
> Is it more appropriate to write a wrapper that knows how to convert
> 0:0:34:00.00 to my preferred time unit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben


check_snmp is not doing any conversions.  The OID is defined as TIMETICKS 
(base INTEGER) which hundredths of a second.

snmpget converts the TIMIETICKS to a human readable time format, 
check_snmp does not.

A wrapper would be appropriate.

-- 
-sg


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