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SNMP commands from a Linux server

I want to probe a device in SNMP from a Linux server. I need to know all the commands that are valid from the server(SNMP Manager). Can anyone provide me with the link where I can study all the commands? I have searched a lot but I am able to find only few commands that can used to probe the device. Thank You!

Solution

  • Refer to SNMP rfc section 4.1.1 on-wards to see the basic SNMP Request PDU's. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1157#section-4.1.1

    There are multiple tools free and licensed that you could use to probe SNMP Agent(server). One such command line tool is net-snmp based. Refer the following link for the same.

    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/snmpcmd.1.html

    The above reference has man pages related to snmpget/snmpwalk to get you started.

    Hope it helps!