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The other main SNMP operation for retrieving information is the GETNEXT request - a "fuzzy-matching" version of GET.
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The other main SNMP operation for retrieving information is the [[GETNEXT]] request - a "fuzzy-matching" version of GET, and is implemented by the [[snmpgetnext]] tool.
    
== Basic Example ==
 
== Basic Example ==
 
     % snmpgetnext -v 2c -c demopublic test.net-snmp.org SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0
 
     % snmpgetnext -v 2c -c demopublic test.net-snmp.org SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0
 
     SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = Wes Hardaker wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu
 
     SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = Wes Hardaker wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu
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    % snmptranslate -On SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0
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    .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0
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    .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0
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At first sight, this might seem an odd thing to do, but it is actually extremely useful,
 
At first sight, this might seem an odd thing to do, but it is actually extremely useful,
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== Multiple Variables ==
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== Multiple Values ==
    
Just as with [[TUT:snmpget|snmpget]], it's also possible to run a single GETNEXT request with several OIDs, and it will retrieve the next valid instance for each of these:
 
Just as with [[TUT:snmpget|snmpget]], it's also possible to run a single GETNEXT request with several OIDs, and it will retrieve the next valid instance for each of these:
    
     % snmpgetnext -v 2c -c demopublic test.net-snmp.org sysORDescr.2 sysORID.2 sysORUpTime.2
 
     % snmpgetnext -v 2c -c demopublic test.net-snmp.org sysORDescr.2 sysORID.2 sysORUpTime.2
Exception encountered, of type "Error"