Hello,<br><br>a) I&#39;m trying to monitor bird via SNMP so I can put it into Nagios. I want alerts to go off when a routing protocol session goes down, or if I am receiving not an defined number of routes. Any ideas?<br><br>
b) With the aim of achieving a) I am trying to write something automatic using birdc:<br><br>Basically I&#39;m trying run birdc from a program. The program will type commands into birdc, then act on the information.<br><br>
Here is my problem. You can recreate it by doing &quot;birdc &gt; file&quot; and then examining file afterwards. Here&#39;s what I got:<br><br>&quot;<br><br>BIRD 1.1.4 ready.<br>bird&gt; show protocols<br>bird&gt; ^M^[[Kname     proto    table    state since  info<br>
bgp_export Static   master   up    Oct18<br>direct1  Direct   master   up    Oct18<br>kernel1  Kernel   master   up    Oct18<br>device1  Device   master   up    Oct18<br>ebgp     BGP      master   up    Nov13  Established<br>
bogons   Static   master   down  Nov12<br>rip1     RIP      master   up    Nov12<br>ibgp     BGP      master   up    Nov16  Established<br>bird&gt; exit<br><br>&quot;<br><br>What&#39;s with the bird&gt; ^M^[[K bit? I&#39;m guessing it brings it back to the beginning of the line. Why does it do this?<br>
<br>David<br>