NAME

       snmpstatus - retrieves a fixed set of management information from a network entity

SYNOPSIS

       snmpstatus [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cf] AGENT

DESCRIPTION

       snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves several important statistics from a network entity.

       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.

       See the snmpcmd(1) manual page for a full list of the possible formats for AGENT.

       The information returned is:

              The IP address of the entity.
              A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)
              The uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0)
              The sum of received packets on all interfaces (ifInUCastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*)
              The sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces (ifOutUCastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)
              The number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0)
              The number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0)

       For example:

       snmpstatus -c public -v 1 netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu

       will produce output similar to the following:

       [128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
       Interfaces: 1,  Recv/Trans packets: 262874/39867 | IP: 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!

       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.  snmpstatus will
       attempt to reform its request to eliminate the malformed variable (unless the -Cf option  is  given,  see
       below), but this variable will then be missing from the displayed data.

OPTIONS

       COMMON OPTIONS
              Please  see  snmpcmd(1)  for  a  list  of  possible  values  for  COMMON  OPTIONS as well as their
              descriptions.

       -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.

SEE ALSO

       snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1)

V5.9.4.pre2                                        25 Jul 2003                                     SNMPSTATUS(1)