---
name: "gsnmp-get"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libgsnmp0"
version: "0.2.0-2.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gsnmp-get"
---

# gsnmp-get(1)

retrieve data from an SNMP agent

## NAME

gsnmp-get - retrieve data from an SNMP agent

## SYNOPSIS

**gsnmp-get** \[*options*\] *uri*

## DESCRIPTION

**gsnmp-get** retrieves information from network devices using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The data to be retrieved is specified using the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) syntax for SNMP defined in RFC 4088.

The *uri* argument identifies the SNMP agent to talk to and which data should be retrieved.

It should be noted that gsnmp-get is not aware of MIB definitions and thus is only able to output raw data (no nice formatting or translation of OIDs into a more human friendly syntax). A simple way to work around this limitation is to pipe the output through the smixlate program, which is part of the libsmi package.

## OPTIONS

**scli** accepts the following options:

- **-s, --silent**

  Keep silent and produce no output.

- **-r N, --repeats=N**

  Executes the data retrieval N times.

## EXAMPLES

Retrieve the SNMPv2-MIB::system subtree:

`gsnmp-get snmp://public@device//1.3.6.1.2.1.1.*`

Retrieve the SNMPv2-MIB::system subtree, piping through smixlate:

`gsnmp-get snmp://public@device//1.3.6.1.2.1.1.* ` `| smixlate SNMPv2-MIB`

## FURTHER INFORMATION

More information can be found on the gsnmp web page which is available at:

\<https://trac.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/gsnmp/\>

## SEE ALSO

**RFC**4088

## AUTHOR

Juergen Schoenwaelder \<j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de\>.