Simple debugging tool for monitoring configurations that use SNMP

With SNMP Tester, you can run simple SNMP requests against a device in your network. This test program is based on the SNMP technologies built into PRTG Network Monitor.

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Instructions

The idea of this program is to have a tool that enables you to debug SNMP activities to find communication and/or data issues in SNMP monitoring configurations. If the SNMP connection works with this test program, it also works with PRTG.

1. Click the Free Download button above to download the setup file for the current version of SNMP Tester.

2. Execute the file Paessler SNMP Tester Setup.exe.

3. Follow the steps in the Paessler SNMP Tester Setup Wizard.

For more information on how to use SNMP Tester, see the SNMP Tester Manual.

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History

V24.4.102 (Nov 6th, 2024): Maintenance release
- The IPv6 field for OIDLIB scan and Scan for Interfaces is now properly used when necessary.
- Non-printable characters in the log are now correctly encoded in hexadecimal format, which was not the case in some instances.
V23.3.87 (Aug 17th, 2023): Paessler SNMP Tester now supports SNMP v3 ciphers for encryption and authentication methods which are as follows:SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and AES-192, AES-256.
V20.2.4 (June 4th, 2020): We added the option Use GetNext to the advanced settings. With this option, you can perform SNMP GETNEXT requests on a target device to test and debug your SNMP activities.
V20.1.58 (Mar 18th, 2020): Maintenance release
- New versioning system that follows the PRTG versioning (year.quarter.build)
- Installer and executable are now signed to confirm their integrity.
- Several minor fixes and improvements
V5.2.3 (Apr 18th, 2016): Maintenance release
V5.2.2 (Mar 9th, 2016): Maintenance release
V5.2.1 (Oct 19th, 2015): Support for hex bytes as return value type (for example, for MAC addresses)
V5.2 (Aug 13th, 2015): SNMP Tester can now show the data type of an SNMP value

V5.1.3 (July 1st, 2014): Fixed an error caused by very long OIDs
V5.1.2 (Jan 17th, 2014): When checking "Uptime", the tester now uses two different OIDs
V5.1 (Aug 5th, 2013): New stable version
V5.0.11 Beta (Apr 30th, 2013): Beta version with enhanced options
V5.0.10 Beta (Mar 20th, 2013): Beta version with enhanced options
V5.0.9 Beta (Mar 11th, 2013): Beta version with enhanced options
V5.0 Beta (Feb 5th, 2013): Beta version with enhanced options
V3.2 (Dec 2009): Added option to run scan every x seconds
V3.1f (Aug 2009): Maintenance release
V3.1b (May 2009): Maintenance release
V3.1 (Apr 2009): Added option to enable Single Get, added more debug output when scanning interfaces
V3.0 (Nov 2008): Updated for compatibility with PRTG 7, added OIDLIB support
V2.2 (Apr 2006): Improved error handling, minor bugfixes
V2.1 (Apr 2006): Enhanced SNMP management
V2.0 (Mar 2006): Added support for SNMP Version 2c and 3
V1.2 (Nov 2005): Added "Scan Interfaces" option
V1.1 (Oct 2005): Initial release

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SNMP Tester (5 MB)

SNMP Tester is a diagnostic tool that is provided as freeware to users of PRTG Network Monitor. Please understand that we cannot provide extended support for this tool.