SNMP Counters
Allow you to compare apples to apples
- Counters have standard definitions
- as defined by IETF, IEEE, some vendors…
- regardless of network element type or vendor
- and globally unique, hard to pronounce names
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Have a well specified size
- 32 or 64 bits wide
- 64 bit data-type available in SNMP v2c or v3
- Hacks for SNMPv1 include split counters