None of this is useful. All that's useful is what the device is returning in SNMP.

You can see what the device returned in SNMP either in the poller, or by putting your mouse over the (i) icon on an alert checker, like this : 

http://omega.memetic.org/~adama/monosnap/Observium_Dev____-_Alerts_-_Google_Chrome_2017-01-06_13.31.17.png

The CLI is not SNMP. It's incredibly unhelpful to try to use the CLI as "proof" of anything, since on many platforms they will frequently disagree due to bugs or MIB standards.

adam.

On 06/01/2017 13:28:50, Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR <ybzahr@prodware.fr> wrote:

Yes, it is :

 

«IPv6 addresses DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::5 and DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::6 are loopbacks used to be used by former PEs.

 

If I look at the BGP sessions state on the routers themselves, you can see that I have willingly administratively shutdown those particular sessions :

 

telnet@rr01-par01#sh ipv bgp summary 

  Neighbor Address          AS#         State   Time          Rt:Accepted Filtered Sent     ToSend

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::2              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h29m    2           0        32985    0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::3              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h18m    24074       0        8911     0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::4              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h16m    1790        0        32360    0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::5              XYZ       ADMDN   366d12h37m    0           0        0        0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::6              XYZ       ADMDN   366d12h37m    0           0        0        0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::7              XYZ       CONN    357d12h10m    0           0        0        32985    

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::8              XYZ       ESTAB   366d12h37m    32453       0        24701    0        

 

Rest of alerts checks for IPv4 and IPv6 sessions are fine.» 

 

Are you expecting a different sort of feedbacks ? Maybe debug traces ?

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR - Consultant Expert
Prodware France
T : +33 979 999 000 - F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr@prodware.fr
Web : prodware.fr

         

 

 

 

De : observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> au nom de Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Répondre à : Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date : vendredi 6 janvier 2017 13:53
À : "observium@observium.org" <observium@observium.org>
Objet : Re: [Observium] Possible bug with BGP IPv6 sessions state alert checker

 

No, it's not in your initial email.

 

adam.

On 06/01/2017 12:52:15, Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR <ybzahr@prodware.fr> wrote:

Dear Adam,

 

It’s actually all in my initial email. Target devices aren’t anymore, those PEs were unplugged.

 

I kept the configuration in the RRs routers in order to save some time when re-deploying in a near future. That’s how I discovered the “issue”.

 

Would like me to provide you with some debug traces ?

 

Best regards.

 

 

 

 

Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR - Consultant Expert
Prodware France
T : +33 979 999 000 - F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr@prodware.fr

Web : prodware.fr

         

 

 

 

De : observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> au nom de Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Répondre à : Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date : vendredi 6 janvier 2017 12:51
À : "observium@observium.org" <observium@observium.org>
Objet : Re: [Observium] Possible bug with BGP IPv6 sessions state alert checker

 

You're not giving any actual useful information. What are those devices actually returning?

 

Put your mouse over the (i) icon.

 

adam.

On 06/01/2017 08:37:02, Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR <ybzahr@prodware.fr> wrote:

Dear Adam,

 

Actually, I checked a lot before sending the email. If I can avoid noise, I will always choose to do so.

 

My check is pretty simple : I would like to detect as errors BGP sessions that are AdminEnabled (ie not shutdown) and that aren’t in Established state. Theese could be problematic for any kind of reason.

 

For this particular example I gave, same check works just fine for IPv4 for this old peers :

 

 

This has been confirmed on two routeurs acting as RRs :

 

telnet@rr01-par01#sh ip bgp summary 

  Neighbor Address  AS#         State   Time          Rt:Accepted Filtered Sent     ToSend

            X.Y.Z.2       ABCDE       ESTAB   369d 5h59m    3           0        621434   1        

            X.Y.Z.3       ABCDE       ESTAB   369d 6h 4m    406952      0        214471   12       

            X.Y.Z.4       ABCDE       ESTAB   369d 6h 2m    59865       0        597987   1        

            X.Y.Z.5       ABCDE       ADMDN   369d10h23m    0           0        0        0        

            X.Y.Z.6       ABCDE       ADMDN   369d10h23m    0           0        0        0        

            X.Y.Z.7       ABCDE       ESTAB> 369d 5h59m    195213      0        510924   1        

            X.Y.Z.8       ABCDE       ESTAB   369d 5h59m    397106      0        540911   1        

 

But, for IPv6 counter-part, it’s not working.

 

Maybe I’m actually missing something. If so, enlighten me with your wisdom.

 

Respectfully.

 

 

 

 

Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR - Consultant Expert
Prodware France
T : +33 979 999 000 - F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr@prodware.fr

Web : prodware.fr

         

 

 

 

De : observium <observium-bounces@observium.org> au nom de Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org>
Répondre à : Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date : jeudi 5 janvier 2017 22:33
À : "observium@observium.org" <observium@observium.org>
Objet : Re: [Observium] Possible bug with BGP IPv6 sessions state alert checker

 

Does bgpPeerAdminStatus not equals "stop" and bgpPeerState not equals "established"?

 

What, you didn't check before emailing?

 

Why not?

 

adam.

On 05/01/2017 20:54:49, Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR <ybzahr@prodware.fr> wrote:

Dear all,

 

I have configured a simple BGP checker alert based on the provided example in observium’s website :

 

 

This works just fine for IPv4, but something is clearly wrong with IPv6 as some IPv6 BGP sessions show up in error.

 

This is an example from two Brocade CER-RT routers acting BGP route reflectors for a bunch of PEs. They are showing the exact same error :

 

 

IPv6 addresses DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::5 and DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::6 are loopbacks used to used by former PEs.

 

If I look at the BGP sessions state on the routers themselves, you can that I have willingly administratively shutdown the sessions :

 

telnet@rr01-par01#sh ipv bgp summary 

  Neighbor Address          AS#         State   Time          Rt:Accepted Filtered Sent     ToSend

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::2              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h29m    2           0        32985    0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::3              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h18m    24074       0        8911     0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::4              XYZ       ESTAB   366d 8h16m    1790        0        32360    0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::5              XYZ       ADMDN   366d12h37m    0           0        0        0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::6              XYZ       ADMDN   366d12h37m    0           0        0        0        

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::7              XYZ       CONN    357d12h10m    0           0        0        32985    

  DEAD:BEEF:CAFE::8              XYZ       ESTAB   366d12h37m    32453       0        24701    0        

 

Rest of alert checks for IPv4 and IPv6 sessions are fine.

 

Any hints about this ? Any traces I could provide ?

 

Best regards.

 

 

 

Youssef BENGELLOUN - ZAHR - Consultant Expert
Prodware France
T : +33 979 999 000 - F : +33 988 814 001 - ybzahr@prodware.fr

Web : prodware.fr