Snmpset is an SNMP application that uses the SET Request to set
information on a network entity. One or more fully qualified
object identifiers must be given as arguments on the command line. A type
and a value to set must accompany each object
identifier. Each variable name is given in the format specified in
variables (5).
The
type
is a single character, one of:
For example
snmpset test-hub private system.sysContact.0 s dpz@noc.rutgers.edu ip.ipforwarding.0 i 2
will set the variables sysContact.0 and ipforwarding.0:
system.sysContact.0 =
"dpz@noc.rutgers.edu"
ip.ipForwarding.0 = not-forwarding(2)
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. If there were other variables in the request,
the request will be resent without the bad variable.