SNMP Utilities

The following table summarizes the SNMP commands which can be used to set values or request information from the MIB objects on the local host or on other SNMP agents reachable over the IP networks.

To do this...	Use this command...
To retrieve the value of an object from a network entity.	snmpget
To set information on a network entity.	snmpset
To retrieve management information from a network entity.	snmpstatus
To retrieve the values of all objects under a particular location in the MIB object hierarchy tree. Use to obtain the values of all the objects under the system and interfaces nodes. Note The retrieval of a complete subtree is referred to as “walking the MIB.”	snmpwalk

The SNMP utilities are located in the directory /usr/bin.

For more information on an SNMP command, enter the command with the -h (or --help) argument.