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- .TH SNMPGET 1 "17 September 1989"
- .UC 4
- .SH NAME
- snmpget - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GET Requests.
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- snmpget host community variable-name [variable-name]...
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- Snmpget is an SNMP application that uses the GET Request to query for
- information on a network entity. One or more fully qualified object
- identifiers may be given as arguments on the command line.
- Each variable name is given in the format specified in
- .IR variables (5).
- .PP
- The
- .I host
- specification may be either a host name or an internet address
- specified in "dot notation"
- .PP
- The
- .I community
- specifies the community name for the transaction with the remote system.
- .PP
- For example
- .PP
- .I snmpget netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu public system.sysdescr.0 system.sysUpTime.0
- .PP
- will retrieve the variables sysDescr.0 and sysUpTime.0:
- .PP
- .I Name: system.sysDescr.0
- .br
- .I OCTET STRING- (ascii): Kinetics FastPath2
- .PP
- .I Name: system.sysUpTime.0
- .br
- .I Timeticks: (2270351) 6:18:23
- .PP
- 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.
- .PP
- Adding a "-d" to the argument list will cause the application to dump input and output packets.
- .PP
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- variables(5), RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1067
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