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.TH SNMPSTATUS 1 "08 Feb 2002" VVERSIONINFO "Net-SNMP"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
snmpstatus - Retrieves important information from a network entity.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B snmpstatus
[COMMON OPTIONS]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B snmpstatus
is an SNMP application that retrieves several important statistics
from a network entity.
.PP
The information returned is:
.IP
The IP address of the entity.
.br
A textual description of the entity (sysDescr.0)
.br
The uptime of the entity's SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0)
.br
The sum of received packets on all interfaces
(ifInUCastPkts.* + ifInNUCastPkts.*)
.br
The sum of transmitted packets on all interfaces
(ifOutUCastPkts.* + ifOutNUCastPkts.*)
.br
The number of IP input packets (ipInReceives.0)
.br
The number of IP output packets (ipOutRequests.0)
.PP
For example:
.PP
snmpstatus -c public -v 1 netdev-kbox.cc.cmu.edu
.PP
will produce output similar to the following:
.PP
[128.2.56.220]=>[Kinetics FastPath2] Up: 1 day, 4:43:31
.br
Interfaces: 1,  Recv/Trans packets: 262874/39867 |
IP: 31603/15805
.PP
.B 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:
.PP
2 interfaces are down!
.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.
.B snmpstatus
will attempt to reform its request to eliminate the malformed
variable (unless the
.B -Cf
option is given, see below), but this variable will then be missing
from the displayed data.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.B snmpstatus
takes the common options described in the
.I snmpcmd(1)
manual page and
also the 
.B -Cf
option described in the 
.I snmpget(1)
manual page.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
snmpcmd(1), snmpget(1)