BIRD and SNMP Traps

[Dmitry S. Nikolaev]

Thanks for your reply and work you do.

Hope that your code will be included in BIRD when you finish.

With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev

Moscow, Russia
mail: dnikolaev at mega-net.ru

On 21.03.2014 12:12, Peter Christensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had planned to postpone any announcement to the community and the
> developers until I had some fully working code to show, but I am
> currently working on SNMP for BIRD.
>
> The idea is to have a generic SNMP framework that the routing
> protocols can use to generate traps and SNMP values. Then one or more
> protocols may implement SNMP-functionality for the framework.
> Initially I'll do an AgentX implementation, but in theory one could
> also add SMUX or plain SNMP.
> I am very careful to make the SNMP implementation as non-intrusive as
> possible and as event-loop-friendly as possible. If some route server
> decides to enable SNMP and all sessions are terminated at the same
> time, we can't have the SNMP protocols block BIRD while emitting SNMP
> notifications.
>
> My basic road map is as follows:
>
> 1. Implement basic SNMP framework with notification support. (complete)
> 2. Implement AgentX protocol for framework. (in progress)
> 3. Implement SNMP notifications for BGP. BGP4-MIB does not support
> 32-bit ASNs, so I am considering using the incomplete BGP4-V2-MIB
> using either my own OID (ordbogen) or that of Juniper (who have
> apparently implemented BGP4-V2-MIB)
> 4. Implement SNMP notifications for OSPF
> 5. Extend framework to handle read-only SNMP support
> 6. Extend AgentX protocol to handle reads
> 7. Implement SNMP data for BGP
> 8. Implement SNMP data for OSPF
>
> Also, after the patch have been submitted to the BIRD developers (and
> hopefully merged), support for UNIX sockets will need to be added to
> the AgentX protocol. As far as I could see, the current code did not
> support connecting to a UNIX socket which ordinarily is the default
> for AgentX.
>
> The work is in my backlog at work, but until it gets prioritized, all
> work is done in my spare time (which is limited). I have a personal
> goal to have everything done before the RIPE69 the 3rd of November.
>
> Best Regards
> Peter Christensen
>
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> On 03/21/2014 09:08 AM, Dmitry S. Nikolaev wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> We will try, try to use this method.
>>
>> With best regards, Dmitry S. Nikolaev
>>
>> Moscow, Russia
>> mail: dnikolaev at mega-net.ru
>>
>> On 21.03.2014 10:43, Daniel Suchy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> you can generate snmp trap from syslog - and bird is capable to log
>>> over
>>> syslog. For example, with syslog-ng you can create filters and only
>>> invoke trap with standard tools only for events you really want.
>>>
>>> With regards,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On 21.3.2014 05:53, Dmitry S. Nikolaev wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> The question is whether planned or thought someone from the BIRD
>>>> developers on the implementation of snmp traps in BIRD ?
>>>> It would be nice to have a possibility to send SNMP trap when BGP
>>>> session goes up/down or OSPF neighbor.
>>>> For now, the only opportunity for the monitoring system to receive
>>>> such
>>>> an event it is parsing BIRD logs.
>>>> Work with SNMP traps would be much easier for implementing into
>>>> monitoring system.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to the BIRD dev team.
>>>>
>
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