Monitoring quagga BGP session for zabbix

Description

Descover and monitor BGP session with count of prefix or state like "Active" or Idle (Admin). Trigger if session change state.

Requirements

• Python
• Zabbix from 3.4 version

Installation

• copy bgpmon.py to /usr/local/bin
• give execute bit chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bgpmon.py
• write file for zabbix agent for example /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/userparameter_bgpd.conf

UserParameter=bgp.peers.discovery,/usr/local/bin/bgpmon.py discovery
UserParameter=bgp.peer.state[*],/usr/local/bin/bgpmon.py neighbor_state -n $1

• Provide vtysh access to user zabbix
  • if you using quagga:

  sudo usermod -a -G quagga zabbix
  

  • if you using frr:

  sudo usermod -a -G frrvty zabbix
  

• restart zabbix-agnet

systemctl restart zabbix-agent

• Import template file