[c-nsp] ISIS/BFD Monitoring

[Alan Buxey]

RouteExplorer is a nice tool

(Commercial, from Packet Design)



On 15 Sep 2017 10:50 am, "Alex K." <nsp.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> A customer of mine, ran into interesting problem - his monitoring software
> unable to provide him with a meaningful alert, in case a link goes down.
>
> As an ISP, they have lots of links, they run ISIS/BFD on all of them but,
> as it regularly happens with carriers, layer 2 never actually goes down
> (apart from SDH and dark fiber links, but those are few).
>
> I tested their equipment (mainly Cisco gear) and all it generates, is a
> trap wich basically say - "ISIS sission 657843347853325524854 went down".
>
> What they looking for, is a monitoring system, which on the scenario above,
> is able to provide the NOC team with a meaningful alert, such as: "ISIS
> status on interface <interface description> changed to down. Please notify
> the network team".
>
> Any suggestions and sharing of personal experience will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
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