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36.Dd January 10, 2012
37.Dt BSNMPGET 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm bsnmpget ,
41.Nm bsnmpwalk ,
42.Nm bsnmpset
43.Nd "simple tools for querying SNMP agents"
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm
46.Op Fl aDdehnK
47.Op Fl A Ar options
48.Op Fl b Ar buffersize
49.Op Fl C Ar options
50.Op Fl I Ar options
51.Op Fl i Ar filelist
52.Op Fl l Ar filename
53.Op Fl M Ar max-repetitions
54.Op Fl N Ar non-repeaters
55.Op Fl o Ar output
56.Op Fl P Ar options
57.Op Fl p Ar pdu
58.Op Fl r Ar retries
59.Op Fl s Ar [trans::][community@][server][:port]
60.Op Fl t Ar timeout
61.Op Fl U Ar options
62.Op Fl v Ar version
63.Op Ar OID ...
64.Pp
65.Nm bsnmpwalk
66.Op Fl dhnK
67.Op Fl A Ar options
68.Op Fl b Ar buffersize
69.Op Fl C Ar options
70.Op Fl I Ar options
71.Op Fl i Ar filelist
72.Op Fl l Ar filename
73.Op Fl o Ar output
74.Op Fl P Ar options
75.Op Fl r Ar retries
76.Op Fl s Ar [trans::][community@][server][:port]
77.Op Fl t Ar timeout
78.Op Fl U Ar options
79.Op Fl v Ar version
80.Op Ar OID ...
81.Pp
82.Nm bsnmpset
83.Op Fl adehnK
84.Op Fl A Ar options
85.Op Fl b Ar buffersize
86.Op Fl C Ar options
87.Op Fl I Ar options
88.Op Fl i Ar filelist
89.Op Fl l Ar filename
90.Op Fl o Ar output
91.Op Fl P Ar options
92.Op Fl r Ar retries
93.Op Fl s Ar [trans::][community@][server][:port]
94.Op Fl t Ar timeout
95.Op Fl U Ar options
96.Op Fl v Ar version
97.Ar OID Ns = Ar syntax Ns : Ns Ar value
98.Op Ar OID Ns = Ar syntax Ns : Ns Ar value ...
99.Sh DESCRIPTION
100.Nm ,
101.Nm bsnmpwalk
102and
103.Nm bsnmpset
104are simple tools for retrieving management information from and setting
105management information to a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent.
106.Pp
107Depending on the options
108.Nm bsnmpget
109constructs either a SNMP GetRequest, GetNextRequest
110or a GetBulkRequest packet, fills in the object identifiers (OIDs) of the
111objects whose values will be retrieved, waits for a response and prints it if
112received successfully.
113.Pp
114.Nm Bsnmpwalk
115queries an agent with ether SNMP GetNextRequest or GetBulkRequest packets,
116asking for values of OID instances that are a part of the object subtree
117rooted at the provided OIDs.
118.Pp
119.Nm Bsnmpset
120constructs a SNMP SetRequest packet, fills in the OIDs (object identifiers),
121syntaxes and values of the objects whose values are to be set and waits for a
122response from server.
123.Sh OPTIONS
124The options are as follows (not all apply to all three programs):
125.Bl -tag -width ".It Fl D Ar options"
126.It Fl A Ar options
127Authentication options to use with SNMPv3 PDUs
128.Bl -tag -width \&
129.It Cm proto=[md5|sha]
130The protocol to use when calculating the PDU message digest.
131.It Cm key=authkey
132A binary localized authentication key to use when calculating the PDU message
133digest.
134.El
135.Pp
136By default SNMPv3 PDUs are sent unauthenticated.
137.It Fl a
138Skip any sanity checks when adding OIDs to a Protocol Data Unit (PDU):
139ingore syntax/access type, allow adding of non-leaf objects for GetPdu and
140read-only objects to a SetPDU.
141.It Fl b Ar buffersize
142Tune the size of buffers used to send and receive packets.
143The default size is 10000 bytes which should be enough unless an agent sends
144a really large octetstring.
145The maximum allowed length is 65535 according to the Structure of Management
146Information (SMIv2).
147.It Fl C Ar options
148The context to query with SNMPv3 PDUs.
149.Bl -tag -width \&
150.It Cm context=name
151The context name. Default is "" (empty).
152.It Cm context-engine=engine-id
153The SNMP Engine ID of the context to query with SNMPv3 PDUs, represented as
154binary octet string.
155By default, this is set to the Engine ID of the SNMP agent.
156.El
157.It Fl D
158Perform SNMP USM Engine Discovery, rather than sending a request for the value
159of a specific object.
160.It Fl d
161Turn on debugging.
162This option will cause the packets sent and received to be dumped to the
163terminal.
164.It Fl e
165Retry on error.
166If an error is returned in the response PDU, resend the request removing the
167variable that caused the error until a valid response is received.
168This is only useful for a GetRequest- and a GetNextRequest-PDU.
169.It Fl h
170Print a short help text with default values for various options.
171.It Fl I Ar options
172Load each MIB description file from the given list to translate symbolic
173object names to their numerical representation and vice versa.
174Use the other options to obtain a non-default behaviour:
175.Bl -tag -width \&
176.It Cm cut=OID
177Specifies the initial OID that was cut by
178.Xr gensnmpdef 1
179when producing the MIB description file.
180The default value is .iso(1).org(3).dod(6) which is what should have been
181used for all the files installed under
182.Pa /usr/share/snmp/defs .
183Use this only if you generated your own files, providing a
184.Fl c
185option to
186.Xr gensnmpdef 1 .
187.It Cm path=filedir
188The directory where files in the list will be searched.
189The default is
190.Pa /usr/share/snmp/defs Ns .
191.It Cm file=filelist
192A comma separated list of files to which the two options above will apply.
193.El
194.Pp
195The file suboption has to come after the other suboptions so that their
196non-default values will be applied to the list of files.
197The order of the other suboptions before each file suboption can be random.
198Suboptions may be separated either by commas or by spaces.
199If using spaces make sure the entire option string is one argument, for
200example using quotes.
201.It Fl i Ar filelist
202List of MIB description files produced by
203.Xr gensnmpdef 1
204which
205.Nm bsnmpget ,
206.Nm bsnmpwalk
207or
208.Nm bsnmpset
209will search to translate numerical OIDs to their symbolic object names.
210Multiple files can be provided either giving this option multiple times
211or a comma separated list of file names.
212If a filename begins with a letter the default directory,
213.Pa /usr/share/snmp/defs ,
214will be searched.
215.It Fl K
216Calculate and display the localized authentication and privacy keys
217corresponding to a plain text password.
218The password is obtained via the environment.
219Additionally, if one or more OIDs are specified, the calculated
220keys are used when processing the SNMPv3 requests.
221.It Fl l Ar filename
222The path of the posix local (unix domain) socket if local
223transport is used.
224.It Fl M Ar max-repetitions
225The value for the max-repetitions field in a GetBulk PDU.
226Default is 10.
227.It Fl N Ar non-repeaters
228The value for the non-repeaters field in a GetBulk PDU.
229Default is 0.
230.It Fl n
231Only use numerical representations for input and output OIDs and do not
232try to resolve symbolic object names.
233Note that
234.Nm bsnmpget ,
235.Nm bsnmpwalk
236and
237.Nm bsnmpset
238will print numerical OIDs anyway if the corresponding string representation
239is not found in the MIB description files.
240.It Fl o Ar [quiet|short|verbose]
241The format used to print the received response.
242Quiet only prints values, short (default) prints an abbreviated OID
243representation and the value.
244In addition to the short output verbose prints the type before the value.
245.It Fl P Ar options
246Privacy options to use with SNMPv3 PDUs
247.Bl -tag -width \&
248.It Cm proto=[aes|des]
249The protocol to use when encrypting/decrypting SNMPv3 PDU data.
250.It Cm key=privkey
251A binary localized privacy key to use when encrypting/decrypting SNMPv3 PDU data.
252.El
253.Pp
254By default plain text SNMPv3 PDUs are sent.
255.It Fl p Ar [get|getnext|getbulk]
256The PDU type to send by
257.Nm bsmpget
258and
259.Nm bsnmpwalk .
260Default is get
261for
262.Nm bsmpget
263and getnext for
264.Nm bsnmpwalk .
265Getbulk allows executing the so called SNMP "bulkwalks" allowing the values of
266multiple columns to be retrieved in a single PDU by
267.Nm bsnmpwalk .
268.It Fl r Ar retries
269Number of resends of request packets before giving up if the agent does
270not respond after the first try.
271Default is 3.
272.It Fl s Ar [trans::] Ns Ar [community@] Ns Ar [server] Ns Ar [:port]
273Each of the server specification components is optional but at least one
274has to be provided if the
275.Ar s
276option is used.
277The server specification is constructed in the following manner:
278.Bl -tag -width \&
279.It Cm trans::
280Transport type may be one of udp, stream or dgram.
281If this option is not provided an UDP inet/inet6 socket will be used, which
282is the most common.
283Stream stands for a posix local stream socket and a posix local datagram
284socket will be used if dgram is specified.
285.It Cm community@
286Specify an SNMP community string to be used when sending packets.
287If the option is skipped the default "public" will be used for
288.Nm
289and
290.Nm bsnmpwalk
291and the default "private" community string will be used for
292.Nm bsnmpset .
293.It Cm server
294This might be either the IP address or the hostname where the agent is
295listening.
296The default is
297.Qq localhost .
298.It Cm port
299The destination port to send the requests to.
300This is useful if the SNMP agent listens on a non-default port.
301Default is given by the
302.Qq snmp
303entry in
304.Pa /etc/services ,
305port 161.
306.El
307.It Fl t Ar timeout
308Number of seconds before resending a request packet if the agent does
309not respond.
310The default value is 3 seconds.
311.It Fl U Ar options
312User credentials when sending SNMPv3 PDUs.
313.Bl -tag -width \&
314.It Cm engine=id
315The Engine ID of the SNMP agent represented as a binary octet string.
316.It Cm engine-boots=value
317The value of the snmpEngineBoots of the SNMP agent.
318.It Cm engine-time=value
319The value of the snmpEngineTime of the SNMP agent.
320.Pp
321If any of the above is not specified, SNMP USM Engine Discovery is attempted.
322This is also the default behavior.
323.It Cm name=username
324The USM user name to include in the SNMPv3 PDUs.
325By default, the user name is
326obtained via the environment.
327.El
328.It Fl v Ar version
329The SNMP protocol version to use when sending requests.
330SNMP versions 1, 2 and
3313 are supported.
332If no version option is provided
333.Nm bsnmpget ,
334.Nm bsnmpwalk
335and
336.Nm bsnmpset
337will use version 2.
338Note that GetBulkRequest-PDUs were introduced in SNMPv2 thus setting the
339version to 1 is incompatible with sending a GetBulk PDU.
340.It OID
341The object identifier whose value to retrieve.
342At least one OID should be provided for
343.Nm bsnmpget
344to be able to send a request.
345.Pp
346For
347.Nm bsnmpwalk
348this is the root object identifier of the subtree whose values are to be
349retrieved.
350If no OID is provided
351.Nm bsnmpwalk
352will walk the mib2 subtree rooted
353at .iso(1).org(3).dod(6).internet(1).mgmt(2).mib2(1) .
354.Pp
355Any of the formats used to print a single variable
356is valid as input OID:
357.Bl -tag -width \&
358.It 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.1.0
359.It sysDescr
360.It ifPhysAddress.1
361.It ifRcvAddressStatus.2.6.255.255.255.255.255.255
362.It ifRcvAddressType[2,ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff]
363.It ifRcvAddressStatus[Integer:1,OctetString:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff]
364(requires the
365.Fl o Ar verbose
366option)
367.El
368.Pp
369Square brackets are used to denote an entry's indexes.
370When used in an input OID, the square brackets may have to be
371escaped or the OID has to be quoted to protect it from the shell.
372Note there is no difference between ifName.1 and "ifName[1]".
373.It OID Ns = Ns Ar [syntax Ns :] Ns Ar value
374The object identifier with its syntax type and value that is to be set.
375At least one such string OID=[syntax:]value should be provided to
376.Nm bsnmpset
377to be able to send a request.
378.Bl -tag -width \&
379.It Cm OID
380OID may be input as a string, a string followed by a random number of integers
381(suboids) separated by dots, a sequence of integers separated by dots - that is
382if the
383.Ar n
384option is used - and in such case a syntax is required for every value,
385or a string followed by square brackets (used to denote an entry's indexes) and
386corresponding indexes.
387Any of the formats used to print a single variable by
388.Nm bsnmpset
389is valid as input OID as well:
390.Bl -tag -width \&
391.It 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.1.0=TimeTicks:537615486
392.It sysLocation=OctetString:"@ Home" (with Fl o Ar verbose No option)
393.It sysLocation.0="@ Home"
394.It 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6.1=OctetString:ffffffffffff
395.It ifPhysAddress.1="00:02:b3:1d:1c:a3"
396.It ifRcvAddressStatus.1.6.255.255.255.255.255.255=1
397.It "ifRcvAddressStatus[Integer:1,OctetString:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff]=Integer:1"
398(with the
399.Fl o Ar verbose
400option)
401.El
402.It Cm syntax
403where the syntax string is one of:
404Integer, OctetString, OID, IpAddress, Counter32, Gauge, TimeTicks, Counter64.
405.It Cm value
406The value to be set - IP address in form of u.u.u.u - for example
4071.3.1.6.1.2.0=IpAddress:192.168.0.1, strings require inverted-commas if they
408contain any special characters or spaces, all other numeric types do not.
409.El
410.El
411.Sh ENVIRONMENT
412.Nm ,
413.Nm bsnmpwalk
414and
415.Nm bsnmpset
416use the following environment variables:
417.Bl -tag -width SNMPAUTH
418.It Ev SNMPAUTH
419Specifies a default SNMP USM authentication protocol.
420.It Ev SNMPPRIV
421Specifies a default SNMP USM privacy protocol.
422.It Ev SNMPUSER
423Specifies a default SNMP USM user name.
424.It Ev SNMPPASSWD
425Specifies the SNMP USM plain text password to use when calculating localized
426authentication and privacy keys.
427If this variable exists in the environment,
428SNMPv3 is the default version to use for outgoing requests.
429.El
430.Sh SEE ALSO
431.Xr gensnmpdef 1
432.Sh AUTHORS
433.An Shteryana Shopova Aq Mt syrinx@FreeBSD.org
434