snmpstatus - retrieves a fixed set of management information from a network entity
snmpstatus [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cf] AGENT
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 sta-
tistics 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 con-
sist 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 (ifOutUCastP-
kts.* + 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 (ifOp-
erStatus.*), 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+---------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
|Availability | system/management/snmp/net-snmp |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+---------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-
snmp/files/net-snmp/5.8/net-snmp-5.8.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.net-snmp.org/.
V5.8 25 Jul 2003 SNMPSTATUS(1)