retrieve information from a network entity
snmpstatus [-d] host [community]
This utility has been deprecated in SNMP version 2. |
The snmpstatus utility retrieves these statistics from a network entity:
Statistic | Variable |
---|---|
IP address of the entity | - |
textual description of the entity | sysDescr.0 |
uptime of the entity | sysUpTime.0 |
sum of received packets on all interfaces | ifInU - CastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.* |
sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces | ifOutU - CastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.* |
number of IP input packets | ipInReceives.0 |
number of IP output packets | ipOutRequests.0 |
The snmpstatus utility also checks the operational status of all interfaces (ifOperStatus.*), and if it finds any interfaces that aren't running, it displays a report similar to:
2 interfaces are down!
This command:
snmpstatus netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu public
produces output similar to:
[128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31 IF recv/trans packets 262874/39867 | IP recv/trans packets 31603/15805
If the network entity has an error processing the request packet, an error packet is returned and snmpstatus displays a message to help pinpoint how the request was malformed. If you've specified other variables, snmpstatus resends the request without the variable that caused the problem.
This utility has been deprecated; it works only with SNMP version 1. If you need similar functionality with SNMPv2, you should do the snmpget commands separately.
snmpd,
snmpget,
snmpgetnext,
snmpnetstat,
snmptest,
snmptrap,
snmptrapd,
snmpwalk
/etc/mib.txt file
RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1067
Marshall T. Rose, The Simple Book: An Introduction to
Internet Management, Revised 2nd ed. (Prentice-Hall,
1996, ISBN 0-13-451659-1)