THANKS! I'll give it a try.

Harold

> Happen to be working on writing a new MIB which does this right now.
>
> The textual-convention is:
>
> FixedDiv10 ::=3D TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
>
>      DISPLAY-HINT "d-1"
>
>      STATUS current
>
>      DESCRIPTION "Fixed Integer value with one decimal digit"
>
>      SYNTAX Integer32
>
>
> Then you use it just like:
>
>
> gnssAltitude OBJECT-TYPE
>
>      SYNTAX FixedDiv10
>
>      MAX-ACCESS read-only
>
>      STATUS current
>
>      DESCRIPTION "The altitude being reported by the gnss receiver"
>
>      ::=3D { gnssReceiverEntry 5 }
>
>
> I'm planning on adding a note to the description indicating that the raw
> value needs to be divided by 10 if this isn't done automatically by the
> customer's SNMP tools.
>
>
> Note that the phrase "FixedDiv10" could be anything you want.   I am stil=
l
> considering whether or not this is the right phrase, since FixedDiv10
> isn't
> exactly right.  FixedExp-1 isn't very clear to non-math types, etc.
>
>
> I've seen implementations where they set a TEXTUAL-CONVENTION for each
> type
> of data, i.e. TenthsOfVolts, which might make more sense.
>
>
> -forrest
>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Harold Hallikainen <
> harold@mai.hallikainen.org> wrote:
>
>> From
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2142265/what-is-a-
>> good-way-to-show-a-floating-point-number-via-snmp
>> , it appears you can send fixed point non-integer values as INT32 with a
>> scaling factor to position the decimal point. I THINK the conversion
>> from
>> the INT32 (say, divide by 1,000) to the fixed point non-integer is
>> specified in the MIB using TEXTUAL-CONVENTION and DISPLAY-HINT. Does
>> anyone have a sample MIB that does this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Harold
>>
>>
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