Description: If set to ascii(1), the format is human-readable ascii with a lines in the form:

# timestampStart timestampCompletion col-1 col-2 ... col-n instance-1 value-1 value-2 ... instance-2 value-3 value-4 ... ...

where:

timestampStart and timestampCompletion are the values of sysUptime on the agent when the snapshot of the data slice was initiated and completed (with or without errors).

column-1 thru column-n are the human-readable MIB module column names that are included in this data slice.

instance-1 (etc) are human-readable MIB module instance names in usual dotted notation.

value-1 (etc) are human-readable ascii representations of the actual values of the data cells. This is in DisplayString format regardless of the native data type of the column. It is implementation-specific if the column name is stored in dotted-OID format (.1.3.6...) or in symbolic format (ifInOctets).

For example, an ifTable data slice file fragment might be:

# 28711187 28711190 ifDescr ifType ifInOctets ifOutOctets 1 lo0 softwareLoopback 54550782 54552115 2 eth0 ethernet-csmacd 372380346 2746062289 3 eth0.0 ethernet-csmacd 4002949 126167

If set to xml(2), the data will be saved in XML tagged format.