snmpEngineBoots stores the number of times the SNMP Engine has initialized (on switch reboot or SNMP restart the value will increment). The value should always be a positive number in the range of 1-2147483647. When the value for snmpEngineBoots is outside the permitted range, it gets reset to 1 internally to keep it in the permitted range. As per the standards, snmpEngineBoots value will increment up to 2147483647 and then will remain the same. So a user reset is required in this stage. This is not done internally since the value is still under the permitted range. This is the duty of the network administrator to check and reset.
The command "show snmpv3 engine-info" shows the snmpEngineBoots value. This value can reset to any value in the range of 1-2147483647 manually using the command "configure snmpv3 engine-boots <value>". This is usually required when the snmpEngineBoots reaches value 2147483647.
Notice
snmpEngineBoots value reset to 1 internally since it was outside the permitted range(value before reset %eBoots%).
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| eBoots | sInt32 |