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| .TH SNMPSTATUS 1 "25 Jul 2003" VVERSIONINFO "Net-SNMP" |
| .SH NAME |
| snmpstatus - retrieves a fixed set of management information from a network entity |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B snmpstatus |
| [COMMON OPTIONS] [\-Cf] AGENT |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B snmpstatus |
| is an SNMP application that retrieves several important statistics |
| from a network entity. |
| .PP |
| AGENT identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented |
| to monitor the given objects. At its simplest, the AGENT |
| specification will consist of a hostname or an IPv4 address. |
| In this situation, the command will attempt communication with |
| the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to port 161 of the given target host. |
| .PP |
| See the |
| .I snmpcmd(1) |
| manual page for a full list of the possible formats for AGENT. |
| .PP |
| The information returned is: |
| .IP |
| The IP address of the entity. |
| .br |
| A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0) |
| .br |
| The uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0) |
| .br |
| The sum of received packets on all interfaces |
| (ifInUCastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*) |
| .br |
| The sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces |
| (ifOutUCastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*) |
| .br |
| The number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0) |
| .br |
| The number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0) |
| .PP |
| For example: |
| .PP |
| snmpstatus \-c public \-v 1 netdev\-kbox.cc.cmu.edu |
| .PP |
| will produce output similar to the following: |
| .PP |
| [128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31 |
| .br |
| Interfaces: 1, Recv/Trans packets: 262874/39867 | |
| IP: 31603/15805 |
| .PP |
| .B 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: |
| .PP |
| 2 interfaces are down! |
| .PP |
| 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. |
| .B snmpstatus |
| will attempt to reform its request to eliminate the malformed |
| variable (unless the |
| .B \-Cf |
| option is given, see below), but this variable will then be missing |
| from the displayed data. |
| .PP |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B COMMON OPTIONS |
| Please see |
| .I snmpcmd(1) |
| for a list of possible values for COMMON OPTIONS |
| as well as their descriptions. |
| .TP |
| .B \-Cf |
| By default, snmpstatus will try to fix errors returned |
| by the agent and retry a request. In this situation, |
| the command will display the data that it can. If the \-Cf option |
| is specified, then snmpstatus will not try to fix |
| errors, and the error will cause the command to terminate. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1) |
