[c-nsp] How to monitor BGP sessions

[Robert Boyle]

At 11:20 AM 4/17/2007, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was wondering how you guys monitor your BGP sessions. Do you use 
>snmp traps or do you poll the router with a snmp get (if thats posible)?
>I ask this because I want don't want to get notified if one bgp goes 
>down. But I would like to know if a important bgp session goes down/flapping.
>
>So I would like to see something like this:
>All bgp sessions: snmp-traps
>Important bgp sessions: snmp-trap & snmp get
>
>My questions is, what do you use for monitoring bgp? And is it 
>posible to send a snmp get to a cisco device specifying only one bgp 
>session to get the status for that? and what is the MIB for that?

Yes. You can use any SNMP monitoring package. There are hundreds of 
commercial and free SNMP management software programs out there.

The MIB is:

1.3.6.1.2.1.15.3.1.2.a.b.c.d

where a.b.c.d is the IP address of your BGP neighbor.

-Robert



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