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Joe Harris, CCIE No. 6200 (R&S, Security & SP) is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems® specializing in Security. In addition to authoring Cisco Network Security Little Black Book, Joe has also been a technical reviewer for several Cisco Press publications and written articles, white papers, and presentations on various security technologies. He also assists various Certification Partners by beta testing their newest CCIE certification workbooks and has been recognized by Cisco as a 2-Time SE Wall of Fame award winner.

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ASA SNMP OID’s

Ever have a need to find a specific SNMP Object ID on your ASA? Well you could use the Cisco SNMP Object Navigator for the ASA/PIX to locate the information or you could simply enter a command into the CLI. What command are you talking about you might say? I don't see a command that will give me this information. In fact about the only thing I can view on my ASA is the SNMP Server Statistics. Well it's actually hidden but if you issue the 'show snmp-server oidlist' command on your ASA it will list all OID's in that version of code along with a description of each Object ID. Here's an example:

ASA# sh snmp-server oidlist ------------------------------------------------- [0] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1. sysDescr [1] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2. sysObjectID [2] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3. sysUpTime [3] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4. sysContact [4] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5. sysName [5] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.6. sysLocation [6] 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.7. sysServices [7] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1. ifNumber [8] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1. ifIndex [9] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2. ifDescr [10] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3. ifType [11] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.4. ifMtu [12] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5. ifSpeed [13] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6. ifPhysAddress [14] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7. ifAdminStatus [15] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8. ifOperStatus [16] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.9. ifLastChange [17] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10. ifInOctets [18] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.11. ifInUcastPkts [19] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.12. ifInNUcastPkts [20] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.13. ifInDiscards [21] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14. ifInErrors [22] 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16. ifOutOctets <--- More --->

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    That’s a great feature, that I didn’t know about.

    cheers!

    VirtualChris

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    Are there any similiar commands available on Catalyst Switches?

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    How many of these “undocumented” commands are there. And are there any other helpful ones?

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    Funny you should bring that up, I was/am planning on detailing another very useful one tomorrow if I get time. Stay tuned but it may be over the weekend before I get it posted but prior to Monday.

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