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
       statistics 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  con
       sist  of  a hostname or an IPv4 address.  n this situation, the command
       will attempt communication with the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to  port  161
       of the given target 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 entitys SNMP agent (sysUpTime.0)
	      The sum of received packets on all interfaces (ifInUCastPkts.* +
	      ifInNUCastPkts.*)
	      The  sum	of transmitted packets on all interfaces (ifOutUCastP
	      kts.* + 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	(ifOp
       erStatus.*),  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
       COMMON OPTIONS
	      Please  see  snmpcmd(1) 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. 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)



4th Berkeley Distribution	  25 Jul 2003			 SNMPSTATUS(1)