SNMPGET(1)SNMPGET(1)NAMEsnmpget - communicates with a network entity using SNMP
GET Requests.
SYNOPSISsnmpget [-Cf] [ common arguments ] objectID [objectID]...
DESCRIPTION
Snmpget is an SNMP application that uses the GET Request
to query for information on a network entity. One or more
fully qualified object identifiers may be given as argu
ments on the command line. Each variable name is given in
the format specified in variables(5).
For example
snmpget zeus public system.sysDescr.0
will retrieve the variable system.sysDescr.0:
system.sysDescr.0 = "SunOS zeus.net.cmu.edu 4.1.3_U1 1
sun4m"
If the network entity has an error processing the request
packet, an error packet will be returned and a message
will be shown, helping to pinpoint in what way the request
was malformed. If there were other variables in the
request, the request will be resent without the bad vari
able.
OPTIONS-Cf If -Cf is not specified, some applications (E.G.,
snmpget, snmpgetnext, snmpwalk, etc) will try to
fix errors returned by the agent that you were
talking to and resend the request. The only time
this is really useful is if you specified a OID
that didn't exist in your request and you're using
SNMPv1 which requires "all or nothing" kinds of
requests. Example (system.sysUptime is an incom
plete OID request for agents as it needs the .0
index appended to it):
snmpget-v 1 -Cf localhost public system.sysUpTime system.sysContact.0
Error in packet
Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
This name doesn't exist: system.sysUpTime
snmpget-v 1 localhost public system.sysUpTime system.sysContact.0
Error in packet
Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
This name doesn't exist: system.sysUpTime
system.sysContact.0 = root@localhost
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With the -Cf specified the application will not try
to fix the PDU for you.
SEE ALSOsnmpcmd(1), variables(5).
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