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

I rather send that data via OCTET STRING/DisplayString. Numbers such as "1.5" can be sent easily.

However, if the data need to be accurate, you may use Kyle's suggestion by sending bytes (octets). Noticeably that is also sent via OCTET STRING as it is a perfect byte container.