Netmond V2. BGP directive


The BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) directive creates and describes second and third level subobjects in a Netmond hierarchy.
Second level subobject is BGP autonomous system number. It is child of Object.
Third level subobjects are BGP peers (neighbors) IP addresses this router interacts to.

Monitoring of this BGP subobjects is made by special SNMP polling method Method Router and by standard SNMP traps Trap Generic bound to parent Object.
During monitoring process BGP peers status checked (IDLE, ACTIVE, ESTABLISHED,NONE) and counters values are saved to internal variables (if Netmond compiled with USE_BGP_COUNTERS option).

Built-in saving method Save BGP, report all BGP peers status changes to a plain text file.

You may configure custom saving methods for this BGP autonomous system.

BGP directive can be used only inside Object definition block. Directive syntax is:

BGP number [ {
[ Description "description" ]
[ DataDir "directory" ]
[ Peer "address" ] ...
[ Save ( BGP | "name" ) [ "arguments" ] ] ...
} ]
Define Autonomous System on object, parameters and peers, saving methods.
number
Autonomous system number - BGP ASN - in range 1..65535.
description
Short one-line description.
directory
Alternative data saving directory in Netmond hierarchy. Default dirname is the autonomous system number with 'AS' prefix, for example AS8691.
address
Peer's network address. If no peers defined, Netmond look up all peers in this AS and monitor them.

See also:
BGPAS internal variables
BGPPeer internal variables

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