Help with SNMP for BIRD

[Michal Nowak]

Hi Glenn,
 
There is also bird-snmp-agent that works with LibreNMS out of the box if you are looking for something quick.

While I am not sure who the original author was as there were multiple copies of the package on both web and github - I've added support for bird2 and some quality (or so I like to think) documentation.

https://github.com/mikenowak/bird-snmp-agent

The only caveat is that IPv6 BGP sessions can not be currently monitored, as BGP4-MIB does not have support for IPv6.

I've researched a possibility to include support for BGP4-V2-MIB which includes IPv6 peers support, but at the time we had limited interest in IPv6 - so that never got done.

I also recall that there were changes required to LibreNMS to get BGP4-V2-MIB working.

If you are not necessary limited to Nagios (Barry's reply) or LibreNMS (the above) then you may also consider prometheus exporter for bird by Daniel Czerwonk - https://github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter

HTH,
Michal


----- On May 22, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Glenn Peace gtpeace at nic.cr wrote:

> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> I hope this message finds you well.
> 
> We would like to monitor the BGP session stablished by our BIRD Route server
> with monitoring tools like Nagios or LibreNMS.
> 
> I’ve found a couple email threads indicating this was not directly available a
> couple years ago.
> 
> On the other hand, some web sites suggest tools for this purpose, but I’m u sure
> if they are reliable.
> 
> Is this now available with BIRD? Or, can you suggest a tool for this?
> 
> Best,
> 
>                N I C . C R
> Glenn Peace
> Sr. Network Engineer
> gtpeace at nic.cr