Reference Guide

MIB examples
SNMP examples
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Commands
Look in the c:\net-snmp\bin folder for the various executables that you can use. The
examples in this section use the following commands:
 snmpwalk: Walks through the MIB tree from a specified OID (along the branch).
 snmpget: Gets the value requested for a specified OID object
 snmpset: Sets a value to a specified OID object (must be a Read-Write OID).
Note Chapter 3: MIB descriptions provides a read-write, read-only, or not-accessible designation
for each MIB object.
The following table shows you some options that you can specify with these commands.
Option or switch Description
-v 2c Indicates that “snmp version 2c", should always be specified when
using the MIBs.
-c Used to specify the community string on the HP product (by default,
this is set to public).
-m ALL Indicates that you want to use or refer to ALL the MIBs located at
$MIBDIRS.
-M path Allows you to specify another location for your MIBs.
-Os Causes the SNMP response to only show the OID name and not the
whole path.
-On Causes the SNMP response to show the OID numeric value, not the
descriptive name.
i Integer switch used to indicate whether the following value will be a
"1" or a "0".
o String switch used to indicate whether the following value will be a
string.
u Numeric switch used to indicate whether the following value will be
a numeric.