BGP MIB Support

The BGP MIB Support Enhancements feature introduces support in the CISCO-BGP4-MIB for new SNMP notifications.

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Information About BGP MIB Support

BGP MIB Support

The Management Information Base (MIB) that supports BGP is the CISCO-BGP4-MIB. The BGP MIB Support Enhancements feature introduces support in the CISCO-BGP4-MIB for new SNMP notifications. The following sections describe the objects and notifications (traps) that are supported:

BGP FSM Transition Change Support

The cbgpRouteTable supports BGP Finite State Machine (FSM) transition state changes.

The cbgpFsmStateChange object allows you to configure SNMP notifications (traps) for all FSM transition state changes. This notification contains the following MIB objects:

  • bgpPeerLastError

  • bgpPeerState

  • cbgpPeerLastErrorTxt

  • cbgpPeerPrevState

The cbgpBackwardTransition object supports all BGP FSM transition state changes. This object is sent each time the FSM moves to either a higher or lower numbered state. This notification contains the following MIB objects:

  • bgpPeerLastError

  • bgpPeerState

  • cbgpPeerLastErrorTxt

  • cbgpPeerPrevState

The snmp-server enable bgp traps command allows you to enable the traps individually or together with the existing FSM backward transition and established state traps as defined in RFC 1657.

BGP Route Received Route Support

The cbgpRouteTable object supports the total number of routes received by a BGP neighbor. The following MIB object is used to query the CISCO-BGP4-MIB for routes that are learned from individual BGP peers:

  • cbgpPeerAddrFamilyPrefixTable

Routes are indexed by the address-family identifier (AFI) or subaddress-family identifier (SAFI). The prefix information displayed in this table can also viewed in the output of the show ip bgp command.

BGP Prefix Threshold Notification Support

The cbgpPrefixMaxThresholdExceed and cbgpPrfefixMaxThresholdClear objects were introduced to allow you to poll for the total number of routes received by a BGP peer.

The cbgpPrefixMaxThresholdExceed object allows you to configure SNMP notifications to be sent when the prefix count for a BGP session has exceeded the configured value. This notification is configured on a per address family basis. The prefix threshold is configured with the neighbor maximum-prefix command. This notification contains the following MIB objects:

  • cbgpPeerPrefixAdminLimit

  • cbgpPeerPrefixThreshold

The cbgpPrfefixMaxThresholdClear object allows you to configure SNMP notifications to be sent when the prefix count drops below the clear trap limit. This notification is configured on a per address family basis. This notification contains the following objects:

  • cbgpPeerPrefixAdminLimit

  • cbgpPeerPrefixClearThreshold

Notifications are sent when the prefix count drops below the clear trap limit for an address family under a BGP session after the cbgpPrefixMaxThresholdExceed notification is generated. The clear trap limit is calculated by subtracting 5 percent from the maximum prefix limit value configured with the neighbor maximum-prefix command. This notification will not be generated if the session goes down for any other reason after the cbgpPrefixMaxThresholdExceed is generated.

VPNv4 Unicast Address Family Route Support

The cbgpRouteTable object allows you to configure SNMP GET operations for VPNv4 unicast address-family routes.

The following MIB object allows you to query for multiple BGP capabilities (for example, route refresh, multiprotocol BGP extensions, and graceful restart):

  • cbgpPeerCapsTable

The following MIB object allows you to query for IPv4 and VPNv4 address family routes:

  • cbgpPeerAddrFamilyTable

Each route is indexed by peer address, prefix, and prefix length. This object indexes BGP routes by the AFI and then by the SAFI. The AFI table is the primary index, and the SAFI table is the secondary index. Each BGP speaker maintains a local Routing Information Base (RIB) for each supported AFI and SAFI combination.

cbgpPeerTable Support

The cbgpPeerTable has been modified to support the enhancements described in this document. The following new table objects are supported in the CISCO-BGP-MIB.my:

  • cbgpPeerLastErrorTxt

  • cbgpPeerPrevState

The following table objects are not supported. The status of these objects is listed as deprecated, and these objects are not operational:

  • cbgpPeerPrefixAccepted

  • cbgpPeerPrefixDenied

  • cbgpPeerPrefixLimit

  • cbgpPeerPrefixAdvertised

  • cbgpPeerPrefixSuppressed

  • cbgpPeerPrefixWithdrawn

How to Enable BGP MIB Support

Enabling BGP MIB Support

SNMP notifications can be configured on the router and GET operations can be performed from an external management station only after BGP SNMP support is enabled. Perform this task on a router to configure SNMP notifications for the BGP MIB.

SUMMARY STEPS

    1.    enable

    2.    configure terminal

    3.    snmp-server enable traps bgp [[state-changes [all] [backward-trans] [limited]] | [threshold prefix]]

    4.    exit


DETAILED STEPS
     Command or ActionPurpose
    Step 1 enable


    Example:
    Device> enable
     

    Enables privileged EXEC mode.

    • Enter your password if prompted.

     
    Step 2 configure terminal


    Example:
    Device# configure terminal
     

    Enters global configuration mode.

     
    Step 3 snmp-server enable traps bgp [[state-changes [all] [backward-trans] [limited]] | [threshold prefix]]


    Example:
    Device(config)# snmp-server enable traps bgp
     

    Enables BGP support for SNMP operations. Entering this command with no keywords or arguments enables support for all BGP events.

    • The state-changes keyword is used to enable support for FSM transition events.

    • The all keyword enables support for FSM transitions events.

    • The backward-trans keyword enables support only for backward transition state change events.

    • The limited keyword enables support for backward transition state changes and established state events.

    • The threshold and prefix keywords are used to enable notifications when the configured maximum prefix limit is reached on the specified peer.

     
    Step 4 exit


    Example:
    Device(config)# exit
     

    Exits global configuration mode, and enters privileged EXEC mode.

     

    Configuration Examples for BGP MIB Support

    Example: Enabling BGP MIB Support

    The following example enables SNMP support for all supported BGP events: 

    Device(config)# snmp-server enable traps bgp

    The following verification example shows that SNMP support for BGP is enabled by displaying any lines in the running configuration file that include “snmp-server”: 

    Device# show run | include snmp-server

snmp-server enable traps bgp

    Additional References

    Related Documents

    Related Topic

    Document Title

    Cisco IOS commands

    Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases

    BGP commands

    IP Routing: BGP Command Reference

    MIB objects supported in CISCO-BGP-MIBv8.1

    “Cisco-BGP-MIBv2” module in the IP Routing: BGP Configuration Guide

    Information about SNMP and SNMP operations

    SNMP Configuration Guide in the Network Management Configuration Guide Library

    MIBs

    MIB

    MIBs Link

    CISCO-BGP4-MIB

    To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco software releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

    http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​go/​mibs

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    Feature Information for BGP MIB Support

    The following table provides release information about the feature or features described in this module. This table lists only the software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that software release train also support that feature.

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    Table 1 Feature Information for BGP MIB Support

    Feature Name

    Releases

    Feature Information

    BGP MIB Support Enhancements

    12.0(26)S

    12.2(25)S

    12.3(7)T

    12.2(33)SRA

    12.2(22)SXH

    15.0(1)SY

    The BGP MIB Support Enhancements feature introduced support in the CISCO-BGP4-MIB for new SNMP notifications.

    The following command was introduced: snmp-server enable traps bgp.