SNMPSTATUS(1)SNMPSTATUS(1)NAMEsnmpstatus - Retrieves important information from a net
work entity.
SYNOPSISsnmpstatus host [community]
DESCRIPTION
Snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves several
important statistics from a network entity.
The host specification may be either a host name or an
internet address specified in "dot notation"
The community specifies the community name for the trans
action with the remote system. If this argument is not
given, the community name will default to public .
The information returned is:
The IP address of the entity.
A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)
The uptime of the entity (sysUpTime.0)
The sum of received packets on all interfaces (ifInUCastP_
kts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*)
The sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces (ifOutU_
CastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)
The number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0)
The number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0)
For example
snmpstatus netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu public
will produce output similar to the following:
[128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
IF recv/trans packets 262874/39867 | IP recv/trans packets
31603/15805
Snmpstatus also checks the operational status of all
interfaces (ifOperStatus.*), and if it finds any that are
not running, it will report in a manner similar to this:
2 interfaces are down! The host specification may be
either a host name or an internet address specified in
"dot notation"
The community specifies the community name for the trans
action with the remote system. If none is given, the com
munity name defaults to public .
If the network entity has an error processing the request
packet, an error packet will be returned and a message
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will be shown, helping to pinpoint in what way the request
was malformed. Snmpstatus will attempt to reform it's
request to eliminate the malformed variable, but this
variable will then be missing from the displayed data.
SEE ALSO
RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1067
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