getmany(ADMN)                   19 June 1992                   getmany(ADMN)


 Name

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

 Syntax


       getmany entityaddr communitystring
       variable class name [variable class name] ...


 Description

    getmany is an SNMP application that retrieves classes of variables from
    an SNMP entity.  The arguments are the entity's address, the community
    string for access to the SNMP entity, and the variable class name(s).
    The variable class name is expressed as an object identifier in either
    dot-notation or as the Mib-variable from the MIB document.  getmany
    retrieves the variable class by first calling the SNMP entity with the
    variable class name to get the first variable in the class.  Utilizing
    the GET_NEXT() capability, it then calls the entity again using the vari-
    able name returned in the previous call to retrieve the next variable in
    the class.  For instance, running the following:

       getmany suzzy public ipRouteDest

    will traverse the network entity's ipRouteDest variable class.  The
    traversal 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(ADMN), getnext(ADMN), getid(ADMN), getroute(ADMN), setany(ADMN),
    snmp(ADMN), RFC 1155, RFC 1156, RFC 1157