• Apps_net-snmp

net-snmp

Availability and IPv6 support

Description

The net-snmp project was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University and Univerisity of California at Davis SNMP implementations .It has various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including:

• An extensible agent
• An SNMP library
• tools to request or set information from SNMP agents
• tools to generate and handle SNMP traps
• a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP The tools provide to query and act on remote SNMP agents are:
• snmpget command, which can be used to retrieve data from a remote host given its host name, authentication information and an OID.
• snmpgetnext command, which is similar in usage to the snmpget command, is used to retrieve the next
• OID in the MIB tree of data. Instead of returning the data requested, it returns the next OID in the tree and its value
• The snmpwalk command which essentially performs a whole series of getnext commands automatically, and stops when it returns results that are no longer inside the range of the OID that was originally specified. This command can be used to get all of the information stored on a machine in the system MIB group.

Comments

Tested and used in 6NET project.

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

Source of information

http://www.6net.org