Using SNMP and the MIB tree is not a simple task. Many people, not very familiar with command line tools and the large amounts of information returned, might feel a bit overwhelmed by it. This is where graphical tools come in handy. And there are lots of freely-available tools that can visualize SNMP. We will discuss only a few of them.
The first tool is called mbrowse
(see http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/). It is a graphical tool for browsing the MIB tree, querying attributes, and running a complete or partial walk through the MIB tree. This tool uses the SNMPv1 and the SNMPv2c protocols. It uses the Net-SNMP libraries and shares the same MIB definitions.
The following is a screenshot of the tool with a result from a walk and an expanded TCP tree:
Another interesting tool is TkIned (Tcl/tK based Interactive Network EDitor) from the Scotty package (https://trac.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/scotty/). This is a graphical tool that uses Tk for the graphical interface and Scotty for...