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SNMPSTATUS(1)                      Net-SNMP                      SNMPSTATUS(1)


NAME

       snmpstatus - retrieves a fixed set of management information from a
       network entity


SYNOPSIS

       snmpstatus [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cf] AGENT


DESCRIPTION

       snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves several important
       statistics from a network entity.

       AGENT identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor
       the given objects.  At its simplest, the AGENT specification will
       consist of a hostname or an IPv4 address.  In this situation, the
       command will attempt communication with the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to
       port 161 of the given target host.

       See the snmpcmd(1) manual page for a full list of the possible formats
       for AGENT.

       The information returned is:

              The IP address of the entity.
              A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)
              The uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (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 -c public -v 1 netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu

       will produce output similar to the following:

       [128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
       Interfaces: 1,  Recv/Trans packets: 262874/39867 | IP: 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!

       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 its request to eliminate the malformed variable
       (unless the -Cf option is given, see below), but this variable will
       then be missing from the displayed data.


OPTIONS

       COMMON OPTIONS
              Please see snmpcmd(1) for a list of possible values for COMMON
              OPTIONS as well as their descriptions.

       -Cf    By default, snmpstatus will try to fix errors returned by the
              agent and retry a request. In this situation, the command will
              display the data that it can. If the -Cf option is specified,
              then snmpstatus will not try to fix errors, and the error will
              cause the command to terminate.


SEE ALSO

       snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1)

V5.7.3                            25 Jul 2003                    SNMPSTATUS(1)

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