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Re: [PLUG] SNMP Newbie Help
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I've always found snmpwalk is the easiest place to start. Point it at
your device and get ready to use '| less' to parse the output. Once
you've got an idea what the MIB should contain, you cab start
constraining your query to a subset.
--
Doug Stewart
On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>
wrote:
> I'm trying to understand snmp, and I think my alzheimer's is acting
> up, and I
> can't make heads-or-tails of this stuff. Can somebody give me a few
> examples
> of CLI access to snmp?
>
> I've read the wikipedia entry on snmp, plus several of tutorials on
> the web,
> but unfortunately they seem to be written in another language, and I
> can't
> crack the surface.
>
>
> Here's a simple thing I want to try: I want to interrogate my cheap
> IOGear
> print server. It's internal web page says that it has 2 snmp
> "communities",
> and each is setup as "Public" and "Read-Only".
>
>
> I'd like to use a simple CLI command like snmpget or snmpwalk to
> itnerrogate
> the print server and see what data it holds. I figure this would
> be a good
> intro to understanding the basic structure.
>
>
>
> Could somebody post a simple snmpget command to see the data this
> device
> provides?
>
>
> Thanks!
> --
>
>
> Casey Bralla
>
> Chief Nerd in Residence
> The NerdWorld Organisation
>
> http://www.NerdWorld.org
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