Thus spake Jeff Binkley
-> >Not completely a cosmetic thing since I sometimes use it to track -> >problems. It's just easier to be able to check the time in one's own -> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> Like I said...its a cosmetic thing. ;)
-> >time zone rather than to keep mentally subtracting 5. I'm lazy. 8-)
Not exactly. If you are using this with an enterprise management system which aggregates SNMP traps, there could be a problem with some of the devices reporting local time and some reporting GMT time. The fact that most network devices allow for a timezone offset would lend credence to this.
Well, I would hope that in SNMP traps, the data would be in GMT and not in a human-readable, and unbelievably-hard-to-reliably-parse format. Converting and display the SNMP trap timestamp information in a human readable format and timezone of the viewer should be the job of the enterprise management system, certainly not of the SNMP agent. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.