1SNMPSTATUS(1)                      Net-SNMP                      SNMPSTATUS(1)
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NAME

6       snmpstatus  -  retrieves  a  fixed set of management information from a
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SYNOPSIS

10       snmpstatus [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cf] AGENT
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DESCRIPTION

13       snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves several important sta‐
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16       AGENT  identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor
17       the given objects.  At its simplest, the AGENT specification will  con‐
18       sist  of a hostname or an IPv4 address.  In this situation, the command
19       will attempt communication with the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to  port  161
20       of the given target host.
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22       See  the snmpcmd(1) manual page for a full list of the possible formats
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25       The information returned is:
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27              The IP address of the entity.
28              A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)
29              The uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0)
30              The sum of received packets on all interfaces (ifInUCastPkts.* +
31              ifInNUCastPkts.*)
32              The  sum  of transmitted packets on all interfaces (ifOutUCastP‐
33              kts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)
34              The number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0)
35              The number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0)
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39       snmpstatus -c public -v 1 netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu
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41       will produce output similar to the following:
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43       [128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
44       Interfaces: 1,  Recv/Trans packets: 262874/39867 | IP: 31603/15805
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46       snmpstatus also checks the operational status of all interfaces  (ifOp‐
47       erStatus.*),  and  if it finds any that are not running, it will report
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52       If the network entity has an error processing the  request  packet,  an
53       error  packet  will be returned and a message will be shown, helping to
54       pinpoint in what  way  the  request  was  malformed.   snmpstatus  will
55       attempt  to  reform  its  request  to  eliminate the malformed variable
56       (unless the -Cf option is given, see below),  but  this  variable  will
57       then be missing from the displayed data.
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OPTIONS

60       COMMON OPTIONS
61              Please  see  snmpcmd(1) for a list of possible values for COMMON
62              OPTIONS as well as their descriptions.
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64       -Cf    By default, snmpstatus will try to fix errors  returned  by  the
65              agent  and  retry a request. In this situation, the command will
66              display the data that it can. If the -Cf  option  is  specified,
67              then  snmpstatus  will not try to fix errors, and the error will
68              cause the command to terminate.
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SEE ALSO

71       snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1)
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