What is a good way to show a floating point number via SNMP?

Question

I am coding an SNMP Agent. I need to send values that have a decimal point to an SNMP Manager.

I have a couple options:

1. Truncate the number.

Answer 1

as an octect-stream in IEEE-754 format (8 Octets). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008