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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 statis-
     tics 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 tar-
     get 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 (ifOperSta-
     tus.*), and if it finds any that are not running, it will report in a  man-
     ner 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  dis-
     played data.

OPTIONS
     COMMON OPTIONS
	    Please  see  snmpcmd(1) for a list of possible values for COMMON OP-
	    TIONS 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)

V5.9.5.2			   25 Jul 2003			   SNMPSTATUS(1)

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