Net-SNMP SNMPCMD(1)
NAME
snmpcmd - options and behaviour common to most of the Net-
SNMP command-line tools
SYNOPSIS
snmpcmd [OPTIONS] AGENT [PARAMETERS]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the common options for the SNMPcommands: snmpbulkget, snmpbulkwalk, snmpdelta, snmpget-
next, snmpnetstat, snmpset, snmptable, snmptest, snmptrap, snmpdf, snmpusm , snmpwalk . The command line applications use the SNMP protocol to communicate with an SNMP capable network entity, an agent. Individual applications typically (but not necessarily) take additional parameters that are given after the agent specification. These parameters are documented in the manual pages for each application. OPTIONS-3[MmKk] 0xHEXKEY
Sets the keys to be used for SNMPv3 transactions.These options allow you to set the master authentica-
tion and encryption keys (-3m and -3M respectively) or
set the localized authentication and encryption keys(-3k and -3K respectively). SNMPv3 keys can be either
passed in by hand using these flags, or by the use ofkeys generated from passwords using the -A and -X flags
discussed below. For further details on SNMPv3 and itsusage of keying information, see the Net-SNMP tutorial
web site ( http://www.Net-SNMP.org/tutorial-5/commands/
). Overrides the defAuthMasterKey (-3m), defPrivMaster-
Key (-3M), defAuthLocalizedKey (-3k) or defPrivLocal-
izedKey (-3K) tokens, respectively, in the snmp.conf
file, see snmp.conf(5).-a authProtocol
Set the authentication protocol (MD5 or SHA) used forauthenticated SNMPv3 messages. Overrides the defAuth-
Type token in the snmp.conf file.-A authPassword
Set the authentication pass phrase used for authenti-
cated SNMPv3 messages. Overrides the defAuthPassphrase token in the snmp.conf file. It is insecure to specify pass phrases on the command line, see snmp.conf(5).-c community
Set the community string for SNMPv1/v2c transactions. Overrides the defCommunity token in the snmp.conf file.-d Dump (in hexadecimal) the raw SNMP packets sent and
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received.-D TOKEN[,...]
Turn on debugging output for the given TOKEN(s). Try ALL for extremely verbose output.-e engineID
Set the authoritative (security) engineID used for SNMPv3 REQUEST messages. It is typically not necessary to specify this, as it will usually be discovered automatically.-E engineID
Set the context engineID used for SNMPv3 REQUEST mes-
sages scopedPdu. If not specified, this will default to the authoritative engineID.-h, --help
Display a brief usage message and then exit.-H Display a list of configuration file directives under-
stood by the command and then exit.-I [brRhu]
Specifies input parsing options. See INPUT OPTIONS
below.-l secLevel
Set the securityLevel used for SNMPv3 messages (noAuthNoPriv|authNoPriv|authPriv). Appropriate pass phrase(s) must provided when using any level higher than noAuthNoPriv. Overrides the defSecurityLevel token in the snmp.conf file.-L [eEfFoOsS]
Specifies output logging options. See LOGGING OPTIONS below.-m MIBLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of MIB modules (not files) to load for this application. This overrides (or augments) the environment variable MIBS, thesnmp.conf directive mibs, and the list of MIBs hard-
coded into the Net-SNMP library.
If MIBLIST has a leading '-' or '+' character, then the
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in the MIB directory search list. Every file whose name does not begin with "." will be parsed as if it were a MIB file.-M DIRLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of directories to search for MIBs. This overrides (or augments) the environment variable MIBDIRS, the snmp.conf directive mibdirs, and the default directory hardcoded into theNet-SNMP library (/etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs).
If DIRLIST has a leading '-' or '+' character, then the
given directories are added to the default list, being searched before or after the directories on this list respectively. Otherwise, the specified directories are searched instead of this default list. Note that the directories appearing later in the list have have precedence over earlier ones. To avoidsearching any MIB directories, set the MIBDIRS environ-
ment variable to the empty string ("").Note that MIBs specified using the -m option or the
mibs configuration directive will be loaded from one ofthe directories listed by the -M option (or
equivalents). The mibfile directive takes a full path to the specified MIB file, so this does not need to be in the MIB directory search list.-n contextName
Set the contextName used for SNMPv3 messages. The default contextName is the empty string "". Overrides the defContext token in the snmp.conf file.-O [abeEfnqQsStTuUvxX]
Specifies output printing options. See OUTPUT OPTIONS
below.-P [cdeRuwW]
Specifies MIB parsing options. See MIB PARSING OPTIONS below.-r retries
Specifies the number of retries to be used in the requests. The default is 5.-t timeout
Specifies the timeout in seconds between retries. The default is 1.-u secName
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messages. Overrides the defSecurityName token in the snmp.conf file.-v 1 | 2c | 3
Specifies the protocol version to use: 1 (RFCs 1155-
1157), 2c (RFCs 1901-1908), or 3 (RFCs 2571-2574). The
default is typically version 3. Overrides the defVer-
sion token in the snmp.conf file.-V, --version
Display version information for the application and then exit.-x privProtocol
Set the privacy protocol (DES or AES) used for encrypted SNMPv3 messages. Overrides the defPrivType token in the snmp.conf file. This option is only validif the Net-SNMP software was build to use OpenSSL.
-X privPassword
Set the privacy pass phrase used for encrypted SNMPv3 messages. Overrides the defPrivPassphrase token in the snmp.conf file. It is insecure to specify pass phrases on the command line, see snmp.conf(5).-Z boots,time
Set the engineBoots and engineTime used for authenti-
cated SNMPv3 messages. This will initialize the local notion of the agents boots/time with an authenticated value stored in the LCD. It is typically not necessary to specify this option, as these values will usually be discovered automatically.-Yname=value
--name=value
Allows to specify any token ("name") supported in the snmp.conf file and sets its value to "value". Overrides the corresponding token in the snmp.conf file. See snmp.conf(5) for the full list of tokens. AGENT SPECIFICATIONThe string AGENT in the SYNOPSIS above specifies the remote
SNMP entity with which to communicate. This specification takes the form:[
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using UDP/IPv4 to port 161 of the given host. Otherwise,
the
according to the following table:part of the specification is parsed
format udp hostname[:port] or IPv4-
address[:port]tcp hostname[:port] or IPv4-
address[:port] unix pathname ipx [network]:node[/port] [interface.][VPI.]VCIudp6 or udpv6 or udpipv6 hostname[:port] or IPv6-
address:port or'['IPv6-address']'[:port]
tcp6 or tcpv6 or tcpipv6 hostname[:port] or IPv6-
address:port or'['IPv6-address']'[:port]
Note that
so that, for example, "tcp" and "TCP" are equivalent. Here are some examples, along with their interpretation:strings are case-insensitive hostname:161 perform query using UDP/IPv4 datagrams to hostname on port 161. The ":161" is redundant here since that is the default SNMP port in any case.
udp:hostname identical to the previous specifica-
tion. The "udp:" is redundant heresince UDP/IPv4 is the default tran-
sport. TCP:hostname:1161 connect to hostname on port 1161using TCP/IPv4 and perform query over that connection. ipx::00D0B7AAE308 perform query using IPX datagrams to node number 00D0B7AAE308 on the default network, and using the
default IPX port of 36879 (900F hex-
adecimal), as suggested in RFC 1906. ipx:0AE43409:00D0B721C6C0/1161 V5.4.1 Last change: 29 Jun 2005 5Net-SNMP SNMPCMD(1)
perform query using IPX datagrams to port 1161 on node number 00D0B721C6C0 on network number 0AE43409.unix:/tmp/local-agent connect to the Unix domain socket
/tmp/local-agent, and perform the
query over that connection./tmp/local-agent identical to the previous specifica-
tion, since the Unix domain is the default transport iff the firstcharacter of the
is a '/'. AAL5PVC:100 perform the query using AAL5 PDUssent on the permanent virtual cir-
cuit with VPI=0 and VCI=100 (decimal) on the first ATM adapter in the machine. PVC:1.10.32 perform the query using AAL5 PDUssent on the permanent virtual cir-
cuit with VPI=10 (decimal) and VCI=32 (decimal) on the second ATM adapter in the machine. Note that "PVC" is a synonym for "AAL5PVC".udp6:hostname:10161 perform the query using UDP/IPv6 datagrams to port 10161 on hostname (which will be looked up as an AAAA record). UDP6:[fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe21:c6c0]
perform the query using UDP/IPv6 datagrams to port 161 at address fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe21:c6c0. tcpipv6:[::1]:1611 connect to port 1611 on the local host in IPv6 parlance) using
TCP/IPv6 and perform query over that connection. Note that not all the transport domains listed above will
always be available; for instance, hosts with no IPv6 sup-
port will not be able to use udp6 transport addresses, and attempts to do so will result in the error "Unknown host". Likewise, since AAL5 PVC support is only currently availableon Linux, it will fail with the same error on other plat-
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MIB PARSING OPTIONSThe Net-SNMP MIB parser mostly adheres to the Structure of
Management Information (SMI). As that specification has changed through time, and in recognition of the (ahem) diversity in compliance expressed in MIB files, additional options provide more flexibility in reading MIB files.-Pc Toggles whether ASN.1 comments should extend to the end
of the MIB source line. Strictly speaking, a secondappearance of "--" should terminate the comment, but
this breaks some MIB files. The default behaviour (to interpret comments correctly) can also be set with the (misnamed) configuration token strictCommentTerm.-Pd Disables the loading of MIB object DESCRIPTIONs when
parsing MIB files. This reduces the amount of memory used by the running application.-Pe Toggles whether to show errors encountered when parsing
MIB files. These include references to IMPORTed modules and MIB objects that cannot be located in the MIB directory search list. The default behaviour can also be set with the configuration token showMibErrors.-PR If the same MIB object (parent name and sub-identifier)
appears multiple times in the list of MIB definitions loaded, use the last version to be read in. Bydefault, the first version will be used, and any dupli-
cates discarded. This behaviour can also be set with the configuration token mibReplaceWithLatest. Such ordering is normally only relevant if there are two MIB files with conflicting object definitions for the same OID (or different revisions of the same basic MIB object).-Pu Toggles whether to allow the underline character in MIB
object names and other symbols. Strictly speaking, this is not valid SMI syntax, but some vendor MIB files define such names. The default behaviour can also be set with the configuration token mibAllowUnderline.-Pw Show various warning messages in parsing MIB files and
building the overall OID tree. This can also be set with the configuration directive mibWarningLevel 1-PW Show some additional warning messages, mostly relating
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OUTPUT OPTIONS
The format of the output from SNMP commands can be con-
trolled using various parameters of the -O flag. The
effects of these sub-options can be seen by comparison with
the following default output (unless otherwise specified):$ snmpget -c public -v 1 localhost sysUpTime.0
SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (14096763) 1 day, 15:09:27.63
-Oa Display string values as ASCII strings (unless there is
a DISPLAY-HINT defined for the corresponding MIB
object). By default, the library attempts to determine whether the value is a printable or binary string, and displays it accordingly. This option does not affect objects that do have a Display Hint.-Ob Display table indexes numerically, rather than trying
to interpret the instance subidentifiers as string or OID values:$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 localhost vacmSecurityModel
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmSecurityModel.0."wes" = xxx
$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 -Ob localhost vacmSecurityModel
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmSecurityModel.0.3.119.101.115 = xxx
-Oe Removes the symbolic labels from enumeration values:
$ snmpget -c public -v 1 localhost ipForwarding.0
IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0 = INTEGER: forwarding(1)
$ snmpget -c public -v 1 -Oe localhost ipForwarding.0
IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0 = INTEGER: 1
-OE Modifies index strings to escape the quote characters:
$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 localhost vacmSecurityModel
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmSecurityModel.0."wes" = xxx
$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 -OE localhost vacmSecurityModel
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmSecurityModel.0.\"wes\" = xxx
This allows the output to be reused in shell commands.-Of Include the full list of MIB objects when displaying an
OID:.iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysUpTime.0
= Timeticks: (14096763) 1 day, 15:09:27.63-On Displays the OID numerically:
.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (14096763) 1 day, 15:09:27.63-Oq Removes the equal sign and type information when
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SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 1:15:09:27.63
-OQ Removes the type information when displaying varbind
values:SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = 1:15:09:27.63
-Os Display the MIB object name (plus any instance or other
subidentifiers): sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (14096763) 1 day, 15:09:27.63-OS Display the name of the MIB, as well as the object
name:SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (14096763) 1
day, 15:09:27.63 This is the default OID output format.-Ot Display TimeTicks values as raw numbers:
SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 = 14096763
-OT If values are printed as Hex strings, display a print-
able version as well.-Ou Display the OID in the traditional UCD-style (inherited
from the original CMU code). That means removing a series of "standard" prefixes from the OID, and displaying the remaining list of MIB object names (plus any other subidentifiers): system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (14096763) 1 day, 15:09:27.63-OU Do not print the UNITS suffix at the end of the value.
-Ov Display the varbind value only, not the OID:
$ snmpget -c public -v 1 -Oe localhost ipForwarding.0
INTEGER: forwarding(1)-Ox Display string values as Hex strings (unless there is a
DISPLAY-HINT defined for the corresponding MIB object).
By default, the library attempts to determine whether the value is a printable or binary string, and displays it accordingly. This option does not affect objects that do have a Display Hint.-OX Display table indexes in a more "program like" output,
imitating a traditional array-style index format:
$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 localhost ipv6RouteTable
IPv6-MIB::ipv6RouteIfIndex.63.254.1.0.255.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.64.1 = INTEGER: 2
$ snmpgetnext -c public -v 1 -OE localhost ipv6RouteTable
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IPv6-MIB::ipv6RouteIfIndex[3ffe:100:ff00:0:0:0:0:0][64][1] = INTEGER: 2
Most of these options can also be configured via configura-
tion tokens. See the snmp.conf(5) manual page for details. LOGGING OPTIONS The mechanism and destination to use for logging of warning and error messages can be controlled by passing variousparameters to the -L flag.
-Le Log messages to the standard error stream.
-Lf FILE
Log messages to the specified file.-Lo Log messages to the standard output stream.
-Ls FACILITY
Log messages via syslog, using the specified facility('d' for LOG_DAEMON, 'u' for LOG_USER, or '0'-'7' for
LOG_LOCAL0 through LOG_LOCAL7).
There are also "upper case" versions of each of these options, which allow the corresponding logging mechanism tobe restricted to certain priorities of message. Using stan-
dard error logging as an example:-LE pri
will log messages of priority 'pri' and above to stan-
dard error.-LE p1-p2
will log messages with priority between 'p1' and 'p2' (inclusive) to standard error.For -LF and -LS the priority specification comes before the
file or facility token. The priorities recognised are:0 or ! for LOG_EMERG,
1 or a for LOG_ALERT,
2 or c for LOG_CRIT,
3 or e for LOG_ERR,
4 or w for LOG_WARNING,
5 or n for LOG_NOTICE,
6 or i for LOG_INFO, and
7 or d for LOG_DEBUG.
Normal output is (or will be!) logged at a priority level ofLOG_NOTICE
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INPUT OPTIONS
The interpretation of input object names and the values to be assigned can be controlled using various parameters ofthe -I flag. The default behaviour will be described at the
end of this section.-Ib specifies that the given name should be regarded as a
regular expression, to match (case-insensitively)
against object names in the MIB tree. The "best" matchwill be used - calculated as the one that matches the
closest to the beginning of the node name and the highest in the tree. For example, the MIB object vacmSecurityModel could be matched by the expression vacmsecuritymodel (full name, but different case), or vacm.*model (regexp pattern).Note that '.' is a special character in regular expres-
sion patterns, so the expression cannot specify instance subidentifiers or more than one object name. A "best match" expression will only be applied against single MIB object names. For example, the expression sys*ontact.0 would not match the instance sysContact.0(although sys*ontact would match sysContact). Simi-
larly, specifying a MIB module name will not succeed(so SNMPv2-MIB::sys.*ontact would not match either).
-Ih disables the use of DISPLAY-HINT information when
assigning values. This would then require providing the raw value:snmpset ... HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemData.0
x "07 D2 0C 0A 02 04 06 08" instead of a formatted version:snmpset ... HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0
= 2002-12-10,2:4:6.8
-Ir disables checking table indexes and the value to be
assigned against the relevant MIB definitions. This will (hopefully) result in the remote agent reportingan invalid request, rather than checking (and reject-
ing) this before it is sent to the remote agent. Local checks are more efficient (and the diagnostics provided also tend to be more precise), but disabling this behaviour is particularly useful when testing the remote agent.-IR enables "random access" lookup of MIB names. Rather
than providing a full OID path to the desired MIB object (or qualifying this object with an explicit MIB module name), the MIB tree will be searched for thematching object name. Thus .iso.org.dod.internet.mib-
2.system.sysDescr.0 (or SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0) can be
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specified simply as sysDescr.0. Warning: Since MIB object names are not globally unique, this approach may return a different MIB object depending on which MIB files have been loaded.The MIB-MODULE::objectName syntax has the advantage of
uniquely identifying a particular MIB object, as well as being slightly more efficient (and automatically loading the necessary MIB file if necessary).-Is SUFFIX
adds the specified suffix to each textual OID given onthe command line. This can be used to retrieve multi-
ple objects from the same row of a table, by specifying a common index value.-IS PREFIX
adds the specified prefix to each textual OID given on the command line. This can be used to specify an explicit MIB module name for all objects being retrieved (or for incurably lazy typists).-Iu enables the traditional UCD-style approach to inter-
preting input OIDs. This assumes that OIDs are rootedat the 'mib-2' point in the tree (unless they start
with an explicit '.' or include a MIB module name). So the sysDescr instance above would be referenced as system.sysDescr.0.Object names specified with a leading '.' are always inter-
preted as "fully qualified" OIDs, listing the sequence of MIB objects from the root of the MIB tree. Such objects andthose qualified by an explicit MIB module name are unaf-
fected by the -Ib, -IR and -Iu flags.
Otherwise, if none of the above input options are specified, the default behaviour for a "relative" OID is to try and interpret it as an (implicitly) fully qualified OID, thenapply "random access" lookup (-IR), followed by "best match"
pattern matching (-Ib).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PREFIX The standard prefix for object identifiers (when usingUCD-style output). Defaults to
.iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2
MIBS The list of MIBs to load. Defaults to SNMPv2-
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TC:SNMPv2-MIB:IF-MIB:IP-MIB:TCP-MIB:UDP-MIB:SNMP-VACM-
MIB. Overridden by the -m option.
MIBDIRS The list of directories to search for MIBs. Defaults to/etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs. Overridden by the -M option.
FILES /usr/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf Agent configuration file. See snmpd.conf(5). /usr/etc/snmp/snmp.conf ~/.snmp/snmp.conf Application configuration files. See snmp.conf(5).SEE ALSO
snmpget(1), snmpgetnext(1), snmpset(1), snmpbulkget(1), snmpbulkwalk(1), snmpwalk(1), snmptable(1), snmpnetstat(1), snmpdelta(1), snmptrap(1), snmpinform(1), snmpusm(1), snmpstatus(1), snmptest(1), snmp.conf(5).ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:_______________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|____________________|__________________________________|_
| Availability | system/management/snmp/net-snmp|
|____________________|__________________________________|_
| Interface Stability| Volatile ||____________________|_________________________________|
NOTESSource for net-snmp is available on http://opensolaris.org.
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