BGP and OSPF Neighbor Down Resource

Your routers that have lost neighbors should at least be alerting you via snmp traps.  And NPM's Alert Manager could be configured to send you pages and e-mails when those events occur.

I agree that having something up front in NPM that showed graphically certain neighbor relationships have failed would be fast and intuitive.  Especially if you have a more complex net that allows your devices to remain connected when one or more preferred (or standby) neighbor relationships have failed.

did you try this?

Know Your Routing Neighbours

Help needed. I'd like to add a resource to our homepage which will inform our network management centre when the BGP protocol has gone down on a link. We need visual a representation, ideally something like the 'nodes with problems' window which at present shows if an interface is down with a little blinking red dot on a green icon for node that's up but has an interface with a down status. I am currently polling a number of nodes for theie BGP peer state and would like to report on this when a BGP peer state is anything other than 'established'. So I have the data there in my DB and I know I can alert on this but the most useful thing to trigger when an alert is generated is a mail which is not very effective. What I really need is to get some sort of visual representation on to the Orion home screen! Maybe I could create a list dispalying top 25 or whatever that lists all nodes BGP peers state where the state is !=6?

This can be done with simple SQL query. The result of the SQL output can be displayed as a resource with "Report from Orion Writer". Let me know if help needed...