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  • 1.  BGP Prefix monitoring

    Posted Thu September 07, 2023 09:48 AM

    Can SevOne do BGP prefix monitoring similar to bgpmon/crossworks that will alert you if on of your prefixes has been withdrawn from the internet?



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    Mark Neely
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  • 2.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    Posted Thu September 07, 2023 04:51 PM

    Hi Mark, thanks for touching base. SevOne NPM does not do BGP prefix monitoring. 



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    Mandy Reyes
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  • 3.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    IBM TechXchange Speaker
    Posted Fri September 08, 2023 02:54 AM

    Hi Mark

    Although specific prefix monitoring is not a feature available in SevOne, we could monitor it with a few restrictions using SNMP.

    By default SevOne is able to monitor the total number of prefixes accepted, denied, advertised....and that is normally enough in most situations. If, on top of that, we add SevOne's capability to detect anomalies, we have a powerful way to detect reachability problems due to missing BGP prefixes.

    But I'd what you are interested is just one single prefix, we still have the option to monitor it using the integration between SevOne and Rapid Network Automation ( SevOne Automated Network Observability, or SANO). With this bundle you could execute a CLI command to get the status of the BGP prefix and store the result in SevOne. Once we have that data in SevOne we can alert when something goes wrong, or, as mentioned before, when we detect an anomaly on the behaviour of that metric.

    As I always say, even if SevOne does not monitor everything out of the box, as long as the times series data is available in some kind of format/protocol, SANO will be able to monitor it with some tweaking.

    Please let me know if you want to discuss this further.



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    Raul Gonzalez
    Software Networking Solutions Architect
    IBM
    Brighton, UK
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  • 4.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    Posted Fri September 08, 2023 11:39 AM

    Thank you for the informative response. It's great to know that while specific prefix monitoring may not be a built-in feature in SevOne, there are workarounds and integration options available to achieve this.

    Monitoring the total number of prefixes accepted, denied, and advertised does cover most use cases, and combining this with SevOne's anomaly detection capabilities can indeed be a powerful way to identify reachability problems related to missing BGP prefixes.

    The suggestion of using the integration between SevOne and Rapid Network Automation (SANO) to execute CLI commands and gather data about the status of a specific BGP prefix is a valuable solution for those interested in monitoring a single prefix. Storing this data in SevOne allows for alerting when issues arise or when anomalies in the metric's behavior are detected.

    Your emphasis on the flexibility of SevOne and its ability to monitor data as long as it's available in some format or protocol with a bit of tweaking is a reassuring point. This adaptability is crucial in the ever-evolving field of network monitoring and management.

    Overall, your response provides a clear and helpful explanation of how to address specific prefix monitoring needs within the SevOne ecosystem. Thank you for sharing this valuable information in English.



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    Zeeshan Aslam
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  • 5.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    Posted Fri September 08, 2023 12:02 PM

    That's good stuff, and if I am following correctly you would be executing cli commands to gather what a local router is doing.  I don't think that is exactly what we are looking for.  Tools like BGPMON, now part of Crossworks, monitors prefixes via multiple looking glasses throughout the world and sends a notification if a prefix is withdrawn from the internet.

    Now, maybe there is a way to script this in SevOne to grab commands from open looking glasses out there?



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    Mark Neely
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  • 6.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    IBM TechXchange Speaker
    Posted Fri September 08, 2023 12:07 PM

    SevOne is focused on internal network monitoring, not external monitoring like tools such as ThousandEyes. IT could be possible to collect data from those open looking glasses, as long as we are allowed to collect data from there (using the same concept mentioned before, possibly not using CLI but REST APIs).



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    Raul Gonzalez
    Software Networking Solutions Architect
    IBM
    Brighton, UK
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  • 7.  RE: BGP Prefix monitoring

    Posted Mon September 11, 2023 04:40 AM

    Thanks for this good input Mark - as Raul mentioned our focus to date has been on the network you own/control, but we're acutely aware that we need to have 'eyes'/probes all over the internet and this is an area of active research for us - stay tuned! Our recently released SaaS app identification and web poller functionality allows us to look inside out, keeping an eye on the most critical apps for your org - we used this to catch the run on Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year and several Broadband provider outages amongst other events.

    If you have a spare moment please do log this idea via https://ideas.ibm.com, this goes direct to the product managers and roadmap makers - keep it coming!

    R.



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    Rupert Gregory
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