SNMPGET(1)

NAME
snmpget - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GET Requests.

SYNOPSIS
snmpget [ common arguments ] objectID [objectID]...

DESCRIPTION
Snmpget is an SNMP application that uses the GET Request to query for information on a network entity. One or more fully qualified object identifiers may be given as arguments on the command line. Each variable name is given in the format specified in variables(5).

For example

snmpget zeus public system.sysDescr.0

will retrieve the variable system.sysDescr.0:

system.sysDescr.0 = "SunOS zeus.net.cmu.edu 4.1.3_U1 1 sun4m"

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. If there were other variables in the request, the request will be resent without the bad variable.

SEE ALSO
snmpcmd(1), variables(5).