NAME

getmany - program to retrieve classes of variables from an SNMP entity

SYNOPSIS

getmany entity_addr community_string variable class name [variable class name] ... 

DESCRIPTION

getmany is an SNMP application to retrieve classes of variables from an SNMP entity.  The arguments are the entity’s address, the community string access to the SNMP entity, and the variable class name(s) is expressed as object identifiers in either dot-notation or as the mib-variables as they appear in the MIB document.  getmany retrieves the variable class by calling the SNMP entity with the variable class name to get the first variable in the class, and then calling the entity again using the variable name returned in the previous call to retrieve the next variable in the class, utilizing the get-next aspect of the variable retrevial system.  For instance, running the following:

getmany suzzy public ipRouteDest

will traverse the network entity’s ipRouteDest variable class (the next node traveling to in the route for the given net-number, which makes up the rest of the variable name) The traversing of the variable space stops when all of the classes being polled return a variable of a class different than what was requested. Note that a network entity’s entire variable tree can be traversed with a call of

getmany suzzy public iso

SEE ALSO

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