[c-nsp] How to monitor BGP sessions

[Roland Dobbins]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:

> An external system (NMS, etc) would need to determine what  
> "important",
> "flap", etc mean, based on rules provided by you.

Arbor Peakflow SP watches BGP and can provide some correlation  
between BGP events and traffic events observed via NetFlow;   
PacketDesign's RouteExplorer does a lot of sophisticated BGP  
monitoring and alerting, in addition to the various IGPs and MPLS, FWIW.

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