snmpbulkwalk Command

The snmpbulkwalk command uses the GETBULK SNMP protocol feature to query for an entire tree of information about a network entity. This command can pack more objects into the packets by specifying “repeaters.” As a result, the snmpbulkwalk command is faster than the snmpwalk command.

Here is an example of the snmpwalk command with approximate start and end time stamps.

% date ; snmpwalk 
            SNMP_agent
            entPhysicalTable >
            /dev/null ; date
Sun Jun 30 18:15:38 EDT 2013
Sun Jun 30 18:16:46 EDT 2013

Here is an example of the snmpbulkwalk command performing the same operation. Notice that the snmpbulkwalk command is faster than the snmpwalk command.

% date ; snmpbulkwalk 
            SNMP_agent
            entPhysicalTable >
            /dev/null ; date
Sun Jun 30 18:19:19 EDT 2013
Sun Jun 30 18:19:38 EDT 2013