snmpping - command an agent to ping a remote host
snmpget [COMMON OPTIONS] AGENT DESTINATION
snmping is an SNMP application that uses the DISMAN-PING-MIB to perform remote pings from the specified AGENT to the remote DESTINATION.
The local host will send SNMPSET commands to the AGENT which, if accepted will then ping the DESTINATION.
snmpping will then poll the AGENT to obtain the ping results.
The AGENT will send pings pings to the DESTINATION.
The AGENT will send pings that are size bytes.
In addition to these options, snmpping takes the common options described in the snmpcmd(1) manual page. Note that snmpping
The command:
snmpping -c private zeus hera
will get host zeus to ping host hera. Host zeus would need to have private as a read-write community.