SNMPPING(1)

🌸 SNMPPING — bestie edition 🌸

ok so like. this is the manual for snmpping, from the General Commands Manual section. it's giving "remote ping, but make it SNMP". sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

snmpping — command an agent to ping a remote host 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

snmpget [COMMON OPTIONS] AGENT DESTINATION

ok yes the synopsis literally says snmpget and not snmpping. that's what the page says, bestie, and i'm not about to gaslight you. copy-paste at your own vibe check. 🙈

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

snmping is an SNMP application that uses the DISMAN-PING-MIB to perform remote pings from the specified AGENT to the remote DESTINATION. no cap. it's literally remote ping technology and honestly? obsessed.

so here's the tea ☕ — the local host will send SNMPSET commands to the AGENT, which, if accepted, will then ping the DESTINATION. like, you're not pinging. your agent is pinging. you're just the main character orchestrating it. 👑

and then? snmpping will poll the AGENT to obtain the ping results. it's a whole back-and-forth situation. it's giving long-distance relationship, but with packets. 💌

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -Ccpings — the AGENT will send pings pings to the DESTINATION. (yes, "pings pings". that's the page. the page is cunty like that. 🌈)
• -Cssize — the AGENT will send pings that are size bytes. so like, how chunky do you want your pings bestie 🍓

in addition to these options, snmpping takes the common options described in the snmpcmd(1) manual page.

Note that snmpping … and then the sentence just STOPS. that's it. that's the whole sentence. the manpage author left us on read and we have to live with that. 😭

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

the command:

snmpping -c private zeus hera

will get host zeus to ping host hera. 🌩️➡️🌸

host zeus would need to have private as a read-write community. (read-write, not read-only. do not come crying to me when it doesn't work, i told you. 💀)

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

snmpcmd(1), variables(5).

go read those too. i know, i know, more reading. but the girls that read the SEE ALSO section are the girls that get it. iykyk. 📚✨

Net-SNMP, dated 2019-08-29 — that's the source, the version and the date, all bundled up like a lil time capsule 🎀 that's the whole page bestie, you ate, go ping something remote 💖🦋