SNMPNETSTAT(1)

💖 SNMPNETSTAT(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to snmpnetstat, part of the Net-SNMP situation — this is the girl that shows you networking status and configuration info from a whole entire remote network entity, and she does it over SNMP. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

snmpnetstat — display networking status and configuration information from a network entity via SNMP

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

snmpnetstat [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Ca] [-Cn] [-Cv] [-Cf address_family]
AGENT
snmpnetstat [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cr] [-Cn] [-Cv] [-Cf address_family]
AGENT
snmpnetstat [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Ci] [-C o | b | d] [-Cn] [-Cv] [-CI
interface] [-Cw interval] AGENT
snmpnetstat [COMMON OPTIONS] [-Cs[s]] [-Cp protocol] AGENT

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, the snmpnetstat command symbolically displays the values of various network-related information that it retrieved from a remote system using the SNMP protocol. 💅

there are a bunch of output formats, and which one you get depends on the options you picked for the information being presented, iykyk:

1. the first form of the command displays a list of active sockets.
2. the second form presents the values of other network-related information according to the option selected.
3. using the third form, with an interval specified, snmpnetstat will continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interfaces.
4. the fourth form displays statistics about the named protocol.

snmpnetstat will issue GETBULK requests to query for information if at least protocol version v2 is used. ⭐

AGENT identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor the given objects. at its simplest, the AGENT specification will consist of a hostname or an IPv4 address. in this situation, the command will attempt communication with the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to port 161 of the given target host. see snmpcmd(1) for a full list of the possible formats for AGENT. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

the options have the following meaning:

🌈 COMMON OPTIONS 🌈

please see snmpcmd(1) for a list of possible values for common options as well as their descriptions. (yes, go read it, it's giving necessary.)

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• -CL — use the legacy SNMP MIB elements, not the modern IP version agnostic tables. snmpnetstat will automatically fall back to the legacy tables if the modern ones are not available. (she's got a backup plan, periodt.)
• -Ca — with the default display, show the state of all sockets; normally sockets used by server processes are not shown. 👀
• -Cf address_family — only show entries for the selected address family (inet, inet6)
• -Ci — show the state of all of the network interfaces. the interface display provides a table of cumulative statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and collisions. the network addresses of the interface and the maximum transmission unit (``mtu'') are also displayed. ✨
• -Cd — add dropped packets to the interface display.
• -Cb — show an extended interface status, giving octets in addition to packets.
• -Co — show an abbreviated interface status, giving octets in place of packets. this is useful when enquiring virtual interfaces (such as Frame-Relay circuits) on a router. 🧚
• -CI interface — show information only about this interface; used with an interval as described below.
• -Cn — show network addresses as numbers (normally snmpnetstat interprets addresses and attempts to display them symbolically). this option may be used with any of the display formats. 🔢
• -Cv — allow long host or service names to break the columnar output. this option may be used with any of the display formats.
• -Cp protocol — show statistics about protocol, which is either a well-known name for a protocol or an alias for it. some protocol names and aliases are listed in the file /etc/protocols. a null response typically means that there are no interesting numbers to report. the program will complain if protocol is unknown or if there is no statistics routine for it. 😭
• -Cs — show per-protocol statistics. if this is duplicated (-Css) statistics entries which are zero will be suppressed. (double it and the zeros vanish, iconic.)
• -Cr — show the routing tables.
• -CR repeaters — for GETBULK requests, repeaters specifies the max-repeaters value to use.

when snmpnetstat is invoked with an interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to network interfaces. interval is the number of seconds between reporting of statistics. ⏱️

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🌟 The Active Sockets Display (default) 🌟

the default display, for active sockets, shows the local and remote addresses, protocol, and the internal state of the protocol. address formats are of the form host.port'' or network.port'' if a socket's address specifies a network but no specific host address. when known, the host and network addresses are displayed symbolically according to the databases /etc/hosts and /etc/networks, respectively. if a symbolic name for an address is unknown, or if the -Cn option is specified, the address is printed numerically, according to the address family. for more information regarding the Internet dot format,'' refer to `inet(3N)`. unspecified, or wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''. 🌈

💜 The Interface Display 💜

the interface display provides a table of cumulative statistics regarding packets transferred, errors, and col- lisions. the network addresses of the interface and the maximum transmission unit (mtu'') are also displayed. (yes the original says col- lisions'' with the line break in the middle, we don't question the ancestors.)

🦋 The Routing Table Display 🦋

the routing table display indicates the available routes and their status. each route consists of a destination host or network and a gateway to use in forwarding pack- ets. the flags field shows the state of the route (U'' if up''), whether the route is to a gateway (G''), whether the route was created dynamically by a redirect (D''), and whether the route has been modified by a redirect (``M''). direct routes are created for each interface attached to the local host; the gateway field for such entries shows the address of the outgoing inter- face. the interface entry indicates the network interface utilized for the route. 🗺️

⭐ The Interface Display with an Interval ⭐

when snmpnetstat is invoked with an interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to network interfaces. this display consists of a column for the primary interface and a column summarizing information for all interfaces. the primary interface may be replaced with another interface with the -CI option. the first line of each screen of information contains a summary since the system was last rebooted. subsequent lines of output show values accumulated over the preceding interval. 👑

🍓 The Active Sockets Display for a Single Protocol 🍓

when a protocol is specified with the -Cp option, the information displayed is similar to that in the default display for active sockets, except the display is limited to the given protocol.

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

example of using snmpnetstat to display active sockets (default):

% snmpnetstat -v 2c -c public -Ca testhost

Active Internet (tcp) Connections (including servers)
Proto Local Address                Foreign Address                 (state)
tcp   *.echo                        *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.discard                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.daytime                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.chargen                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.ftp                         *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.telnet                      *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.smtp                        *.*                            LISTEN
...

Active Internet (udp) Connections
Proto Local Address
udp    *.echo
udp    *.discard
udp    *.daytime
udp    *.chargen
udp    *.time
...

% snmpnetstat -v 2c -c public -Ci testhost

Name     Mtu Network    Address          Ipkts   Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Queue
eri0    1500 10.6.9/24  testhost     170548881  245601   687976     0    0
lo0     8232 127        localhost      7530982       0  7530982     0    0

example of using snmpnetstat to show statistics about a specific protocol:

% snmpnetstat -v 2c -c public -Cp tcp testhost

Active Internet (tcp) Connections
Proto Local Address                Foreign Address                 (state)
tcp   *.echo                        *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.discard                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.daytime                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.chargen                     *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.ftp                         *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.telnet                      *.*                            LISTEN
tcp   *.smtp                        *.*                            LISTEN
...

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

snmpcmd(1), iostat(1), vmstat(1), hosts(5), networks(5), protocols(5), services(5).

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💀 BUGS 💀

the notion of errors is ill-defined. that's it. that's the whole bug report. ngl she ate with that one. 😭

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and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially fluent in snmpnetstat now, go query something 💖

this has been Net-SNMP, version V5.9.5.2, dated 04 Nov 2013 — mwah, xoxo, go read your man pages 🎀✨🦋