Sure it upsets. We have a bunch of average-populated 6500s, using the default max age (which was, as far as I remember, 5) made the switches very slow in responding to SNMP queries. set them to 10, and, Gotcha! everything works very well. ivan
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:25:25 +0200 From: Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <achatz@forthnet.gr> Subject: Re: Network management software with high detailed traffic report To: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <4CEBB2B5.5090507@forthnet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
There is also CSCsg23226 which might be related.
-- Tassos
Nick Hilliard wrote on 23/11/2010 01:35:
On 22/11/2010 22:56, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
Does "service counters max age" help in any way?* *According to Cisco, setting it too low might upset the snmp counters.*
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_r1.ht...
The "Usage Guidelines" are instructive. :-)
Although the update interval defaults to 5 seconds, it still appears to update every 9 seconds on my boxes.
Nick