Re: BGP Route Monitoring

[Charles Monson <charles.lists () camonson com>]

This sounds like something BMP might be useful for. I haven't used it, but
I would look at OpenBMP (https://github.com/SNAS/openbmp) as a starting
point. I'm not familiar with what commercial offerings are out there, but
I'm sure there are some.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 7:45 AM Sandoiu Mihai <Mihai.Sandoiu () wwz ch> wrote:

> Hi
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> I am looking for a route monitoring product that does the following:
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> -checks if a specific bgp route from a specific neighbor is present the
> BGP table (in some vrf, not necessarily internet routed vrf) of an ASR9K
> running IOS XR
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> -sends a syslog message or an alarm if the route goes missing
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> The use case is the following: we are receiving same routes over 2 or more
> bgp peerings, due to best route we cannot really see at the moment if one
> of the routes ceased to be received over a certain peering.
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> Alternative approach: a product that measures the number of bgp received
> prefixes from a certain peer.
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> Do you know of such product that is readily available and does not require
> ssh sessions to the routers and parsing the outputs?
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> I am trying to find a solution that does not require much scripting or
> customization.
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> Many thanks.
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> Regards
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> Mihai