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22 .TH SNMPBULKGET 1 "08 Feb 2002" VVERSIONINFO "Net-SNMP"
25 snmpbulkget - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GETBULK Requests.
28 [APPLICATION OPTIONS] [COMMON OPTIONS] OID [OID]...
31 is an SNMP application that uses the SNMP GETBULK request to query a
32 network entity efficiently for information. One or more object
33 identifiers (OIDs) may be given as arguments on the command line.
34 Each variable name is given in the format specified in
37 If the network entity has an error processing the request packet, an
38 error packet will be returned and a message will be shown, helping to
39 pinpoint why the request was malformed.
45 field in the GETBULK PDU. This specifies the number of supplied
46 variables that should not be iterated over. The default is 0.
51 field in the GETBULK PDU. This specifies the maximum number of
52 iterations over the repeating variables. The default is 10.
54 In addition to these options,
56 takes the common options described in the
62 snmpbulkget -v2c -Cn1 -Cr5 -Os -c public zeus system ifTable
64 will retrieve the variable system.sysDescr.0 (which is the
65 lexicographically next object to system) and the first 5 objects in
68 sysDescr.0 = STRING: "SunOS zeus.net.cmu.edu 4.1.3_U1 1 sun4m"
70 ifIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1
72 ifIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2
74 ifDescr.1 = STRING: "lo0"
80 utilizes the SNMP GETBULK message, which is not available in SNMPv1.
82 snmpcmd(1), variables(5), RFC 1905.