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950 Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch Configuration Guide
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Simple Network Management Protocol
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Showing SNMP Statistics
Use the Administration > SNMP (Show Statistics) page to show counters for SNMP input and output
protocol data units.
CLI References
• “show snmp” on page 111
Parameters
The following counters are displayed:
• SNMP packets input – The total number of messages delivered to the SNMP entity from the
transport service.
• Bad SNMP version errors – The total number of SNMP messages which were delivered to the
SNMP entity and were for an unsupported SNMP version.
• Unknown community name – The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the SNMP
entity which used a SNMP community name not known to said entity.
• Illegal operation for community name supplied – The total number of SNMP messages
delivered to the SNMP entity which represented an SNMP operation which was not allowed by
the SNMP community named in the message.
• Encoding errors – The total number of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by the SNMP entity
when decoding received SNMP messages.
• Number of requested variables – The total number of MIB objects which have been retrieved
successfully by the SNMP protocol entity as the result of receiving valid SNMP Get-Request and
Get-Next PDUs.
• Number of altered variables – The total number of MIB objects which have been altered
successfully by the SNMP protocol entity as the result of receiving valid SNMP Set-Request
PDUs.
• Get-request PDUs – The total number of SNMP Get-Request PDUs which have been accepted
and processed, or generated, by the SNMP protocol entity.
• Get-next PDUs – The total number of SNMP Get-Next PDUs which have been accepted and
processed, or generated, by the SNMP protocol entity.
• Set-request PDUs – The total number of SNMP Set-Request PDUs which have been accepted
and processed, or generated, by the SNMP protocol entity.
• SNMP packets output – The total number of SNMP Messages which were passed from the
SNMP protocol entity to the transport service.
• Too big errors – The total number of SNMP PDUs which were generated by the SNMP protocol
entity and for which the value of the error-status field is “tooBig.”
• No such name errors – The total number of SNMP PDUs which were delivered to, or generated
by, the SNMP protocol entity and for which the value of the error-status field is “noSuchName.”
• Bad values errors – The total number of SNMP PDUs which were delivered to, or generated by,
the SNMP protocol entity and for which the value of the error-status field is “badValue.”
• General errors – The total number of SNMP PDUs which were delivered to, or generated by, the
SNMP protocol entity and for which the value of the error-status field is “genErr.”
• Response PDUs – The total number of SNMP Get-Response PDUs which have been accepted
and processed by, or generated by, the SNMP protocol entity.