Network Status (Netstat); Trace Route - New With V5R1; Lookup Host (Nslookup) - IBM i series Handbook

TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities (5722-TC1)
performance, and problem management data concerning TCP/IP to an SNMP
manager. Management Information Bases supported include:
– MIB-II
– Transmission Groups
– APPN
– Private
• Placing printers in a TCP/IP network on a LAN is common practice today. SNMP
management gives you the option to send print files to those printers and manage
responses from those printers in this network. This option is configured in the OS/400
printer device description and is based on the industry-standard Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP). It supports SNMP printers that support the printer
message information block (MIB).
• Prior to V4R5, either the current Printer Job Language (PJL) driver or Line Print
Requestor (LPR) is used to print to ASCII printers with the output from the Host Print
Transform. The new SNMP driver allows more printers to be accessed from an iSeries
server with the same capabilities seen with direct attached printers or those using the
Printer Job Language (PJL) driver.

NETwork STATus (NETSTAT)

NETwork STATus (NETSTAT) allows a system administrator to monitor and control the
network status of an iSeries server running TCP/IP or APPC over TCP/IP applications.
iSeries NETSTAT provides information about the status of TCP/IP network interfaces, routes,
and connections on a local iSeries server.
A graphical version of network status (NetStat) that includes the ability to map a socket
connection to a list of jobs for that connection.
Trace Route – New with V5R1
In V5R1 Operations Navigator includes an interface to the Trace TCP/IP Route
(TRACEROUTE) CL command. Use it to trace the route of IP packets to a user-defined
destination system. Each system along the way is referred to as a hop. Each IP packet
contains an upper limit (called Time To Live (TTL)) for the number of hop systems the packet
can pass through. The trace ends when either a packet response is received from the
destination system or when the packet TTL value equals the maximum allowed (255).

Lookup Host (NSLOOKUP)

The Operations Navigator Lookup hot utility now allows to search a host name for an IP
address, or to search an IP address for a host name. Using NSLOOKUP via the green screen
interactive query tool gives you more function. But for a simple day-to-day queries of the
mappings between names and IP address, the Operations Navigator utility is perfect.
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