On 26/02/2013 17:24, chip wrote: > Currently I'm gathering this data via SNMP.
whoa, you must really hate your router to do that to it. > While this works it has its draw backs, it > takes approximately 20 minutes per view, its nowhere near real-time, and > I'm unable to gather information for IPv6. SNMP, however, is faster than > screen scraping. All of the XML based access methods seem to take about > the same time as well. cisco: -- term len 0 show bgp ipv4 unicast neigh x.y.z.w received-routes -- juniper: -- show route receive-protocol bgp x.y.z.w | no-more -- Easily scriptable using rancid or something similar. Of course, this sucks because you're only seeing the route summary, not any of the attributes. > project is still in its infancy. BMP seems to be a good solution but I've > not found a working client implementation yet. I see that you can actually > configure this on some Juniper gear but I can't seem to locate a client to > ingest the data the router produces. Can you provide a list of the clients that you have tried? It would save people the effort of going through them and finding out the same things as you did. Nick
