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KBrinkerhoff
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8 days ago

Suppressing Specific BGP peers

There's been a number of times where we have come across customers who have BGP peers that are not in use or sporadically in use, but they do not wish to remove it from their configs.  As a result we get perpetual alerts, but we cannot suppress them as the event suppressed would prevent all bgp peers from alerting.  Anyone have thoughts on some ways to single out peers that can be ignored on a per device level?  

Side note: We are using Powerflow and ServiceNow so we can possibly do something in the path as well.  ServiceNow could take care of it, but doesn't help with the peers that flap.

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  • teppotahkapaa's avatar
    teppotahkapaa
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    6 days ago

    I think there are no easy answers for this. We are struggling with same issues. If event policies could have white lists then there could be separate event policy for each device and there have regexes to filter stuff out. Suppressing makes this really difficult. One possibility could be to make RBA that checks those BGP events and have then a list of device/BGP pairs, and if find such event, then closes it.