Re: Troubles with snmpget

Hi everyone,

I found that

snmpget -c communityName   ipaddress:port

does not work. I raised the issue in another email also.

Regards,




On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
> 2009/5/18  <[email protected]>:
> >> 2009/5/18  <[email protected]>:
> >> > When I try snmpget communityName ipaddress I get a snmpget: Unknown
> host.
> >>
> >> Please read the "snmpget" and "snmpcmd" man pages.
> >> That is not the correct syntax for this command.
>
>
> > thank for the reply, I have already read the manual, but I do not
> understand
> > how should I wrote the command,
>
>  $ man snmpcmd
>
>  SYNOPSIS
>       snmpcmd   [OPTIONS]  AGENT  [PARAMETERS]
>
>  OPTIONS
>      -c  community
>
>
> So the first error you make was to forget the '-c' flag
> before the community name. The command ought to have been:
>
>     snmpget -c communityName   ipaddress
>
> That's why you got the error message "Unknown host"
> (It was treating "communityName" as the host)
>
> It's also sensible to specify the version of SNMP you want to use:
>
>    snmpget -v1 -c communityName  ipaddress
>
>
>
> The final thing you've forgotten is what information you are trying to get.
> You need to specify what you are interested in/
>
> So the full command is actually of the form:
>
>    snmpget -v 1 -c communityName  ipaddress  OID
>
>
>
> > especially referring to OIDs (how I determine them?)
>
> Well, what are you interested in?
> If you want to know the operating system information, you
> could run
>
>    snmpget -v 1 -c public  127.0.0.1   sysDescr.0
>
>
> It might be easier to start with "snmpwalk" rather than "snmpget".
> That works in basically the same way, but is a little more forgiving
> in what it returns.
>
> Dave
>
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