checking BGP states on Cisco routers

[Mike McClure]

There are two ways to do it.

The first is set up check_snmp to watch a particular MIB object.  The fundamental
idea is described here:
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9706/msg00097.html

The second way is to set up logging of BGP states in your router, and use logwatch
or swatch to send a passive update to Nagios.  Don't forget that you have to do:

router bgp nnnn
  bgp log-neighbor-changes

on your router, in addition to setting up the syslog stuff.

Actually, there's one more way, by setting up an SNMP trap collector and getting the
trap from the router.  I don't like that method myself, but YMMV.

- Mike

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> Is there a plugin to check the state of a BGP peer on a Cisco router, and
> how would I obtain it?
>
> Thanks
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> ~j.c.
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