Configuring the BGP Monitoring Protocol

The BGP Monitoring Protocol enables you to collect data from the BGP Adjacency-RIB-In routing tables and to have that data sent periodically to a monitoring station. The Junos OS implementation of the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) is based on Internet draft draft-scudder-bmp-01.txt, BGP Monitoring Protocol.

To configure the BGP Monitoring Protocol, include the bmp statement at the [edit routing-options] hierarchy level:

To configure the monitoring station to which BMP data is sent, you must configure both the station-address and station-port statements. For the station address, you can specify either the IP address or the name of the monitoring station. For name, specify a valid URL.

You can optionally specify how often to send data to the monitoring station. The default is 1 hour. To modify this interval, include the statistics-timeout seconds statement. For seconds, you can specify a value from 15 through 65,535. By default, the routing device stops collecting BMP data when it exceeds a threshold of 10 MB. You can modify the value of this threshold by including the memory-limit bytes statement. For bytes, specify a value from 1048576 to 52428800. If the routing device stops collecting BMP data after exceeding the configured memory threshold, the router waits 10 minutes before attempting to resume the BMP session.