SNMP Manager Programmer's Guide

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SNMPGT

This manager handles a Get packet for one or more MIB objects specified at invocation.

It encodes the packet using BER encoding, prints the request packet, sends a request and

receives a response using the UDP protocol, and prints the response packet.

Invoke SNMPGT as follows; you can specify the arguments preceded with a minus sign

in any order, but the last two arguments must be present and in the locations shown:

agent-community string

is the community name used by the target agent for request authentication. You can

format the community name as a displayable string or as a sequence of octets, where

each octet is an 8-bit hexadecimal value:

"myCommunity"

0x4D:0x65

The default is "public".

request-id

is an integer in the range -2147483648 to 2147483647 that uniquely identifies the

first request packet sent by the manager. The default is 1. If retry-count is

greater than 0, the request ID is incremented by one each time another request is

sent.

agent-request-port

is the UDP destination port to use to address the agent. The default is 161.

retry-count

specifies the number of times to resend the packet if an error occurs. The default is

timeout-seconds

is the number of seconds the manager should wait for response receipt before

resending the request or terminating. The default is 5.

SNMPGT [-c agent-community string]

[-i request-id]

[-p agent-request-port}

[-r retry-count]

[-t timeout-seconds]

target-host-identifier

MIB-object [MIB-object...]