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