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net-snmp-5.9.5.2p1

extendable SNMP implementation

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Description

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring health and statistics of many types of equipment (e.g. routers, computers, printers, power systems, environmental monitors, etc). Net-SNMP provides a library, daemons and utilities: - snmpd responds to SNMP queries. It has built-in support for a wide range of information, and can be extended. Not to be confused with the SNMP daemon in the OpenBSD base OS which is recommended in most cases. Manuals are netsnmp-snmpd(8) and netsnmp-snmpd.conf(5) to avoid conflict. - snmptrapd receives notifications from devices (TRAP and INFORM). It can log, run external handlers, or forward over the network. - tools for standard queries (snmpget*, snmpwalk, snmpbulk*), writes (snmpset), and sending notifications (snmpinform, snmptrap). - tools with special output types; snmpdelta displays differences over time, snmptable collates information from SNMP tables (e.g. ifTable), and there are single-purpose tools like snmpstatus, snmpdf, snmpps, snmptop, snmpnetstat. checkbandwidth provides a Nagios-compatible checker (and requires p5-JSON and p5-Mail-Sender to be installed). - snmptranslate converts between numerical and textual forms of MIB OIDs, and displays MIB content and structure. Flavor: readonly - removes all SET support from the code.

Package information

Ports path
net/net-snmp
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Stuart Henderson <stu.ports@spacehopper.org>
Categories
net, perl5
Available flavors
readonly
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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