snmpstatus(1)                                                      User Commands                                                     snmpstatus(1)

NAME

       snmpstatus - retrieve important information from a network entity

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sfw/bin/snmpstatus [common options] [-Cf] agent

DESCRIPTION

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

       The agent operand identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor specified objects. At its simplest, the agent specifica-
       tion consists of a host name or an IPv4 address. In this situation, the command attempts communication with the  agent  using  UDP/IPv4  to
       port 161 of the target host.

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

       snmpstatus returns the following information:

         o  the IP address of the entity

         o  a textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)

         o  the uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0)

         o  the sum of received packets on all interfaces (ifInUCastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*)

         o  the sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces (ifOutUCastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)

         o  the number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0)

         o  the number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0)

       For example, the command:

       % snmpstatus -c public -v 1 netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu

       produces 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.*). If it finds any that are not running, it reports themin a
       manner similar to this:

       2 interfaces are down!

       If the network entity has an error processing the request packet, an error packet is returned and a message is displayed, helping  to  pin-
       point the way in which 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

       The following options are supported:

       common options

           See snmpcmd(1M) 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. With this option, the command will display the
           data that it can. snmpstatus will not try to fix errors and an error will cause the command to terminate.

EXIT STATUS

       0

           Successful completion.

       1

           A usage syntax error. A usage message is displayed. Also used for timeout errors.

       2

           An error occurred while executing the command. An error message is displayed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWsmcmd                    |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       snmpcmd(1M), snmpget(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          20 Jan 2004                                                      snmpstatus(1)