NAME

getnext - program to retrieve variables from an SNMP entity

SYNOPSIS

getnext entity_addr community string variable name [variable name] ... 

DESCRIPTION

getnext is an SNMP application to retrieve a set of individual variables from an SNMP entity using a GET-NEXT request.  The arguments are the entity’s address, the community string for access to the SNMP entity, and the variable name(s) expressed as either dot-notation or the variable name as it appears in the MIB document.  It should be noted that since the function utilizes the powerful GET-NEXT operator, the variable returned will be the lexicographically greater fully qualified object identifier for what was entered.  For example:

getnext suzzy public system interfaces

would return the variables sysDescr.0 and ifNumber.0 . 

SEE ALSO

getmany(1M), getone(1M)
RFC 1155, RFC 1156, RFC 1157