[c-nsp] Monitoring Routing Protocol Neighborships to clients

[Phil Mayers]

On 06/05/15 13:25, Nick Cutting wrote:
> This question is about how you monitor your neighborship sessions
> towards clients (with or without vrfs).  Whether it is EIGRP / OSPF /
> ISIS or BGP - I am interested in how you are doing this.

SNMP polling. We monitor OSPF interfaces for neighbours, and BGP peers 
for "up" state.

IME, triggering off log messages and SNMP notification is a minefield; 
you can't be 100% sure you received a "push" notification during a 
routing flap. It's safer to "pull" monitor.