SNMPSTATUS(1)                                               Net-SNMP                                               SNMPSTATUS(1)



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.  n 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 run-
       ning, 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 elim-
       inate 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)



4th Berkeley Distribution                                  25 Jul 2003                                             SNMPSTATUS(1)