Snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves several important
statistics from a network entity.
The
host
specification may be either a host name or an internet address
specified in "dot notation"
The
community
specifies the community name for the transaction with the remote system.
If this argument is not given, the community name will default to
public
The information returned is:
The IP address of the entity.
A textual description of the entity
(sysDescr.0)
The uptime of the entity
(sysUpTime.0)
The sum of received packets on all interfaces
(ifInUCastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*)
The sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces
(ifOutUCastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)
The number of IP input packets
(ipInReceives.0)
The number of IP output packets
(ipOutRequests.0)
For example
snmpstatus netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu public
will produce output similar to the following:
[128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
IF recv/trans packets 262874/39867 |
IP recv/trans packets 31603/15805
Snmpstatus also checks the operational status of all interfaces (ifOperStatus.*),
and if it finds any that are not running, it will report in a manner similar to this:
2 interfaces are down!
The
host
specification may be either a host name or an internet address
specified in "dot notation"
The
community
specifies the community name for the transaction with the remote system. If none is
given, the community name defaults to
public
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 it's request to eliminate
the malformed variable, but this variable will then be missing from the displayed data.