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Configuration Aliases

Configuration aliases allow associating a name with a set of name+value pairs that can be used for configuring session parameters or specifying such parameters to SNMP request functions. Aliases are defined using the session alias command.

Syntax:

• % snmpcmd alias
• % snmpcmd alias name ?option value ...?
• % snmpcmd alias name list

Where:

snmpcmd

is the name of any session;

name

is the name of the alias;

option value

are zero or more pairs of configuration option and associated value; and

list

is a list of option+value pairs provided in a single argument

Option/value pairs can either be specified in a single list argument or as separate arguments. Specying an empty list deletes the alias.

Returns:

• Given no arguments, returns a list of defined aliases and the associated list of option+value pairs.
• Given only an alias name, returns the list of option+value pairs associated with that alias.
• Otherwise, assigns the specified options to the named alias and returns the alias name.

Example

% set alias [snmplib alias myhost -remoteaddress 192.168.0.2 -community mycommunity]
myhost
% $session configure -alias $alias
% $session next -alias $alias 0.0