Sunfire B1600 manual Showing Snmp Statistics, 45SNMP Traffic Statistics

3.5.3Showing SNMP Statistics

You can display key statistics on SNMP traffic crossing the management port. This information can be used to debug SNMP errors, or to display the overall amount of SNMP traffic processed by the switch, as well as any illegal attempts to access the switch through SNMP.

TABLE 3-45SNMP Traffic Statistics

Statistic	Description
SNMP packets input
• SNMP packets input	The total number of messages delivered to the SNMP entity
	from the transport service.
• Bad SNMP version errors	The total number of SNMP messages which were delivered
	to the SNMP protocol entity and were for an unsupported
	SNMP version.
• Unknown community	The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the
name	SNMP protocol entity which used a SNMP community
	name not known to said entity.
• Illegal operation for	The total number of SNMP messages delivered to the
community name	SNMP protocol entity which represented an SNMP
supplied	operation which was not allowed by the SNMP community
	named in the message.
• Encoding errors	The total number of ASN.1 or BER errors encountered by
	the SNMP protocol entity when decoding received SNMP
	messages.
• Number of requested	The total number of MIB objects which have been retrieved
variables	successfully by the SNMP protocol entity as the result of
	receiving valid SNMP Get-Request and Get-Next PDUs.
• Number of altered	The total number of MIB objects which have been altered
variables	successfully by the SNMP protocol entity as the result of
	receiving valid SNMP Set-Request PDUs.
• Get-request PDUs	The total number of SNMP Get-Request PDUs which have
	been accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol entity.
• Get-next PDUs	The total number of SNMP Get-Next PDUs which have
	been accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol entity.
• Set-request PDUs	The total number of SNMP Set-Request PDUs which have
	been accepted and processed by the SNMP protocol entity.

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