SNMP analysis with Onesixtyone
Onesixtyone is an SNMP analysis tool that is named for the UDP port upon which SNMP operates. It is a very simple SNMP scanner that only requests the system description value for any specified IP address(es).
Getting ready
To use Onesixtyone to perform SNMP analysis, you will need devices that have SNMP enabled and can be probed and inspected. In the examples provided, an installation of Windows XP is used to perform this task. For more information on setting up a Windows system, refer to the Installing Windows Server recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
How to do it…
Let's perform the SNMP analysis using the onesixtyone
command:
- To use the
onesixtyone
command, you can pass the target IP address and the community string as arguments:

- In the example provided, the community string
public
is used to query the device at172.16.69.129
for its system description. This is one of the most common default community strings used by various network devices. As indicated by...