Hi David, I've experienced the same in 5.3.3 ASR9K. so I think its not fixed yet. maybe you can explore BMP as the solution but make sure there is no memory leak due to BMP (eg : when server shutdown).
Best Regards, Gobinath. On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:32 AM, David Hubbard < [email protected]> wrote: > I’m curious if anyone has noticed issues with CISCO-BGP4-MIB values > related to prefix counts on IOS XR? I’m querying a 6.2.3 device and seeing > weird results. > > I’d like to monitor the number of prefixes advertised and received from > eBGP peers. The mib defines cbgpPeerAcceptedPrefixes as a Counter32, and > cbgpPeerAdvertisedPrefixes as a Gauge32. That’s the first thing that > doesn’t make sense. Both values should be Gauge32 since counting ongoing > changes to the prefix counts is a useless metric for the device to be > tracking. > > So, first is accepted prefixes; cbgpPeerAcceptedPrefixes. Even though > it’s defined in the MIB as a Counter32, the data being returned appears to > be a current reading, i.e. a Gauge32. I can make do with the wrong data > classification since the values seem to be what I want regardless. > > Then I’ve got cbgpPeerAdvertisedPrefixes, which is defined as a Gauge32, > but appears to be behaving like a counter, making the data completely > useless. One peer is showing double the advertisements of another, even > though the actual advertisements are the same. That particular peer has > flapped once since the monitoring began, hence my suspicion that it’s > behaving like a counter. The value returned for iBGP peers, on my edge > routers, is incrementing constantly, currently at 37 million+, adding to > the evidence it’s a counter, and useless. I have not yet found an OID I > can query that gives me a current advertised count. > > Do other platforms behave like this or would this be a bug in the > implementation on my particular device? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
