Create BGP Neighbor Description in Orion Database

Same here; those are all great suggestions, thank you!

I have the same definition in our alert. When it arrives like that, we flag it and manually add the missing External node.

That said, I would be tempted to use a SQL CASE statement. Something roughly like:

SELECT
    CASE
        WHEN (SELECT Caption FROM NodesData Where IP_Address='${N=SwisEntity;M=NeighborIP}') IS NULL THEN 'Unknown Neighbor!'
        ELSE (SELECT Caption FROM NodesData Where IP_Address='${N=SwisEntity;M=NeighborIP}')
    END

I tested this in SQL, but not in the alert (yet).

I'm also tempted to have the node created automagically in SolarWinds to reduce the manual intervention when an unknown neighbor is found.

I`m thinking about having a parallel alert with the same trigger conditions as the previous one, with an extra one that would identify the Neighbor Caption is Null:

The trigger action would fire a PowerShell script that would create the external node on my behalf. I would only have to go back on the node and change the caption... (or even better, if there's an entry in our CMDB, it would populate the caption out of it...)

I wish I had more time in my day! ;)

In our case, routing neighbors are identified as an External Node. You can place the definition in the External Node Name, and it will show up in the alert.

It's a manual process, but it has been proven helpful.

bump and asked differently here thwack.solarwinds.com/.../bgp-alert-to-include-neighbor-description

Just checking if this feature request has been implemented already on 12.5? Appreciate your response. Thank you.

I like it.  Even more so now that we're routing our own BGP internally and across custom / private wave bands we've installed to cut our WAN service costs  to a just a fraction of what the commercial carriers were forcing us to pay.

Let's make this be a thing.

We're starting to get into being our own "carrier" type business and I'm monitoring our route reflectors so we have BGP peers to hundreds of end points and it would be really nice if we could make it do a lookup on the IP and display the node name or setup a description for the neighbor.

Bump

This should be a default setting. Not sure why any selection is grayed out. You let me select what information is shown.