27.4 Querying For SNMP Attributes

To query any SNMP attribute the following details are needed:

  • IP Address of Administration Console

  • The community string name

  • The Object Identifier (OID) of the attributeID

  • The IP address of the device - Identity Server or Access Gateway.

For example, consider a scenario where you want to query the memory utilization of an Identity Server with IP address 10.0.0.0. The query is issued to Administration Console whose IP address is 192.168.0.0

You can perform the query either by using the OID or by using the namespace of the object.

If you are using the net-snmp package for monitoring, the equivalent command to retrieve memory utilization details are: