I've never been sure of this either but I've always checked it. (stupid I know). I believe a way to test this would be to uncheck this option then run getif against the server to get it's snmp walk ...

We have Compaq Insight Manager XE 2.1 implemented here, and I am looking into expanding what we monitor to more than just the Compaq Management Agents. I've been doing some research on the SNMP Event ...