snmpdf1
Display disk space usage on a network entity via snmp
Usage
snmpdf [COMMON
OPTIONS]
[-Cu]
[-Ch]
AGENT
Overview
snmpdf is simply a networked version of the typical df command. It checks the disk space on the remote machine by examining the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB's hrStorageTable or the UCD-SNMP-MIB's dskTable. By default, the hrStorageTable is preferred as it typically contains more information. However, the -Cu argument can be passed to snmpdf to force the usage of the dskTable.
AGENT identifies a target SNMP agent, which is instrumented to monitor the given objects. At its simplest, the AGENT specification will consist of a hostname or an IPv4 address. In this situation, the command will attempt communication with the agent, using UDP/IPv4 to port 161 of the given target host. See the snmpcmd(1) manual page for a full list of the possible formats for AGENT.
See the snmpd.conf(5) manual page on setting up the dskTable using the disk directive in the snmpd.conf file.
Options
- COMMON OPTIONS
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Please see snmpcmd(1) for a list of possible values for COMMON OPTIONS as well as their descriptions.
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-Cu -
Forces the command to use dskTable in mib UCD-SNMP-MIB instead of the default to determine the storage information. Generally, the default use of hrStorageTable in mib HOST-RESOURCES-MIB is preferred because it typically contains more information.
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-Ch -
Print sizes in human readable format (i.e. MiB, GiB, TiB)
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-CH -
Print sizes in human readable SI format (i.e. MB, GB, TB)
Examples
% snmpdf -v 2c -c public localhost
Description size (kB) Used Available Used% / 7524587 2186910 5337677 29% /proc 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab 0 0 0 0% /var/run 1223088 32 1223056 0% /tmp 1289904 66848 1223056 5% /cache 124330 2416 121914 1% /vol 0 0 0 0% Real Memory 524288 447456 76832 85% Swap Space 1420296 195192 1225104 13%
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 9 (Stretch)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
- Debian 4.0 (Etch)
- Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
- Debian 3.0 (Woody)
-CH since Debian 9 (Stretch);
-Ch since Debian 9 (Stretch);
-Cu since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).