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| − | == snmptable ==
  | + | Although [[TUT:snmpwalk|snmpwalk]] can be used to retrieve the contents of a table,  | 
|   | + | it will list the results for each column in turn.  This is not how most people  | 
|   | + | would naturally expect to see a table displayed.  That's where <tt>snmptable</tt> comes in.  | 
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| − | The snmptable command nicely displays a SNMP table for you in an easy to read column based fashion. Consider the sysORTable, which you saw all the data from in the last section. It's hard to get a good feel about the correlation of data when its displayed in a long list, like the output of snmpwalk gives you. Instead, snmptable nicely formats it for you (though sometimes it can be a bit wide, like in this example): 
  | + | == Basic usage ==  | 
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