Windows Service Restart, Detected as Reboot

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Hi,

I sort of stumbled on to this, as I restarted the Windows SNMP service after making a settings change (location) … but no reboot of the computer. However, LibreNMS detected this as a reboot (it wasn’t!). Tried it again on a second PC to make sure … yep, consistent.

I assume this isn’t intended?

Thanks!

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Yes that will happen since you are making to changes to the snmp service and Windows will restart the service automatically which will reset the up time.

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Ahh - OK, so it looks at the service uptime, not the machine uptime … right? No biggie, it was just funny to see my machine as “rebooted”, even though it wasn’t. LOL.

Thanks!

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Yeah thats with anything that uses SNMP all devices that have SNMP have SNMP agent service.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSVSD8_8.4.0/com.ibm.websphere.dtx.snmpagent.doc/concepts/c_snmp_agent_SNMP_Agent.htm

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Got it - thanks!