Hi Richard,

Richard Savage via observium wrote on 02/05/2019 16:39:

Hi

We have observium v19.4.9840 (rolling) setup and working great with alerting for BGP sessions going down.  For BGP sessions with public AS Numbers this works well as it shows up which AS number and who the AS number is assigned to as gone down:



But when its a private AS number with a private IP, its then much harder to distinguish what the BGP neighbor is related to without logging into the router and looking at the neighbor and the neighbor descriptions set against the BGP neighbor:



In most routers you can set a description against a BGP neighbor in the config.  Is it possible to get this description attached to the BGP neighbor in observium thus then adding it to the alert when the BGP neighbor goes down?

This is the config on a Cisco ASR9K for the above neighbor:

router bgp 65000 neighbor 100.127.18.181 description USG1-GREE

this description not advertised in the snmp output.
For set private (and any other) AS description, set such config option (in config.php):

$config['astext'][65332] = "Cymru FullBogon Feed";
$config['astext'][65333] = "Cymru Bogon Feed";

where key after astext is your required AS number.

Could this description be pulled and added to the neighbor and thus alert?  More than happy to provide some debug if required and any SNMP data that might be helpful.

Many Thanks

Richard

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