[c-nsp] How to monitor BGP sessions

[Shaun R.]

I use nagios and wrote my own pluggin to poll the device via snmp.  If you 
want a copy email me and i'll send you the script.

~Shaun


"chiel" <chiel at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:030c01c78103$e2fbb460$760010ac at michiel...
> 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?
>
> thanks
> chiel
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