snmpstatus

Retrieves important information from a network entity. 

Command

SYNOPSIS

snmpstatus [COMMON_OPTION] [-Cf] [AGENT]

DESCRIPTION

snmpstatus is an SNMP application that retrieves a fixed set of management information from a network entity.

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 -v 1 -c public 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 (ifOperStatus.*), and if it finds any that are not running, it will report in a manner 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 displayed data.

Options

snmpstatus takes the common options described in the snmpcmd reference page and also the -Cf option described in the snmpget reference page.

PORTABILITY

All UNIX systems. Windows 10. Windows Server 2016. Windows Server 2019. Windows 11. Windows Server 2022. Windows Server 2025.

AVAILABILITY

PTC MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
PTC MKS Toolkit for Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers 64-Bit Edition
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

SEE ALSO

Commands:
snmpget

Miscellaneous:
snmpcmd

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