<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you are interested below is my upstart conf (bird.conf)<div>I am running Ubuntu so I removed the bird init.d script and added this in /etc/init/</div><div><br></div><div><SNIP></div><div><div>description "BIRD Router Daemon"</div><div><br></div><div>start on runlevel [2345]</div><div>stop on runlevel [!2345]</div><div><br></div><div># An Upstart script to manage the foo service</div><div>respawn</div><div><br></div><div>expect fork</div><div><br></div><div>script</div><div> . /etc/default/bird</div><div> exec /usr/sbin/bird $DAEMON_ARGS</div><div>end script</div><div><br></div><div>post-start script</div><div> sleep 5</div><div> echo "my-foo service started at `date +"%F %T.%N"`" | mail -s "My-foo Service Started" <a href="mailto:user@email.com">user@email.com</a></div><div> chown root.nagios /var/run/bird.ctl</div><div>end script</div><div></SNIP></div><div><br></div><div>This appears to work rather well. That said I am sure there is a much better way of doing it… :)</div><div><br></div><div>Joe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On 23/04/2013, at 12:42 PM, Bao Nguyen <<a href="mailto:ngqbao@gmail.com">ngqbao@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="">@Joe, thanks for starting this thread, I was just thinking along this line of making sure bird is running.</div><div style=""><br></div>Apollon, I would love to give your plugin a try. <div><br></div>
<div>To summarize, I'm deploying Bird on 120 machines (2 nic each) + 6 routers (total of 240 ptp links in a clos configuration) and participate in a single area OSPF. Anyone know whether bird have been being deploy/tested in this use case?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="">thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-bn<br>0216331C</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apollon@skroutz.gr" target="_blank">apollon@skroutz.gr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 19:20 Mon 22 Apr , Joe Wooller wrote:<br>
> On a similar note, does anyone monitor the process externally, (say via nagios or the like?)<br>
> I would be interested to see how people monitor the active process,<br>
> and possibly if anyone monitors sessions and prefixes received, used/filtered?<br>
><br>
> I haven't been able to find any thing out there that suits my needs, so with the assistance of a friend we have come up with this, still in progress though..<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/dowlingw/bird-tool" target="_blank">https://github.com/dowlingw/bird-tool</a><br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> Joe<br>
<br>
</div>We are monitoring the process with icinga & check_mk. Check_mk has a<br>
notion of state, so we essentially persist ("inventorize") the admin<br>
state of all protocols (up/down) and their status (Connected, Running<br>
etc) and if anything changes we get an alert.<br>
<br>
I could share the check_mk plugin that does all this, if anyone is<br>
interested.<br>
<br>
We also monitor the prefix count directly in the Linux kernel (via<br>
/proc/net/fib_triestat and /proc/net/rt6_stats) and use it to score our<br>
keepalived processes higher or lower and possibly trigger a failover of<br>
the access interface IPs if one router seems to receive significantly<br>
less prefixes than the other for some reason.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Apollon<br>
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