== snmptable ==
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Although [[TUT:snmpwalk|snmpwalk]] can be used to retrieve the contents of a table,
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it will list the results for each column in turn.  This is not how most people
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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):
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== Basic usage ==
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