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BGP Neighbor FSM state monitoring

BGP Neighbor FSM state monitoring

Frank
Contributor
How do I log/monitor my BGP neighbor's FSM states?

If I do a "show bgp neighbor x.x.x.x", I can see the FSM state (up since, down since, etc), but a change in states doesn't make it to the logs - or at least not by default.

I just found out that that's somewhat important for me to know - we lost one of our provider's Internet connection, but the port was still up, and other than the "zero traffic" there was no indication that they were down - and of course the FSM state from "sh bgp neigh".

It would be great if I could log those (for "documentation reasons", i.e. leverage in talks with the providers), and awesome if I could SNMP query them or send traps for monitoring.

Thanks for all the help!
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Hernandez__Josh
Extreme Employee
Frank,

If you are not getting any log messages relating to bgp can you run the following command and see if there is a filter dismissing these messages:

show log configuration filter

The filter name is usually "DefaultFilter" if it has not been changed. This will show any filters that have been setup and if all messages are included in the log display.
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