Need a suggestion to enable BGP SNMP traps in my WAN Router

[ksaleemjaffer]

I have a WAN router where the ISP is connected. It is a BGP link and i want to monitor via SNMP.

Simply enabling snmp-server enable traps bgp will trigger all the BGP traps which will bumpup my log server space. So, can any one suggest me which trap will tell me only the BGP state changed from Established to other states and others to Established.(Kind of only UP & Down)

Will the below commands fullfil my requirement

snmp-server enable traps bgp state-changes limited

or

snmp-server enable traps bgp state-changes backward-trans limited.

Please suggest

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Ksaleemjaffer,

according to SNMP command reference that you can find here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/snmp/command/nm-snmp-cr-s4.html#GUID-A912383E-F5C3-477B-A620-6224832E56DD

it should be enough to use the keyword limited

limited: Enables traps for standard backward transition and established events.

So the first version of the command that you have prepared should provide some more info for all the states in the BGP neighbor state machine.

Hope to help

Giuseppe