Alerting on bgp state

> Is this something SolarWinds can do?

 This should not be a problem.
 

You will have to create an advanced alert to trigger an alert based on a Universal Device Poller.

• Start > All Programs > Solarwinds Orion > Advanced Alert Manager
  
• Click on Configure Alerts
  
• Click on new to configure a new alert.
  
• Type a name for your new alert.
  
• Select the Trigger Condition tab.
  
• For the type of property to monitor select Custom Node Poller or Custom Interface Poller. this will filter the condition options you will be allowed to use.
  
• Add two simple conditions by clicking on the three dots.

First condition will be

• Poller Name is equal to "Poller Name to select with the drop down button"
  
  Poller name can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Poller Name
  
  

Second condition will be

• Poller Status is equal/greater/less/etc. than "Value"
  
  Poller Status can be selected under Custom Node Pollers > Status.

Once Selected this you can setup any alert actions you need by configuring the Trigger Actions tab.

Let us know if it works.

Yann
 

 Thanks.    We're getting somewhere...

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 This is where I am.  I didn't know if I needed a Node Poller or Interface Poller.  I chose Node *shrug* 

Under Custom Node Pollers -> I don't see anything that shows my field of "bgpPeerRemoteAs - Label"

 Think I figured it out, one moment...

 Almost there, it's now reporting but the emails are useless.

Can you help with the syntax of the email?    I just want the subject to say Alert: BGP peer x.x.x.x    status

Example:

Alert: BGP peer 1.2.3.4  idle

Looks like I cant only show the one that is idle, I'd have to show it all.

I'm fine with that, but still can't get it to work

 Just trying to get the email to be formatted correctly.

The subject should say : 

Alert: BGP session down: $routername

Body:

The SNMP results of the BGP peers

 The following should do the trick:

 Subject:

 
Alert: BGP session down: ${Node.Caption}

 
Message:

 The SNMP result of this BGP Peer is: ${CustomPollerStatus.Status}
 

When you need a specific variable you can click on the Insert Variable button in the message tab of the Email/Page action and either use one of the built-in variables or query whichever field you need from the database. 

-Yann
 

I am running into same issue.  It appears on get table data like BGP, if you have an Alert configured to alarm whenever a bgp status is not "established", if you try to pull out the row that is not established and display lets say, the IP address of the peer that is down....when you do that ALL the Ip address column values get pulled.  So you can't tell which peer is down on the node.  Anyone know how to pull out individual rows of a get table column based on another columns value.  For this example the standard bgp mib where if bgp neighbor status is not "established" send an alert with the IP of the bgp peer that is down.

 Hi -

Anyone know how to fix the email?