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BGP Monitoring: SIG-PMV Dublin 2019

The document discusses BGP monitoring and the BMP protocol. It summarizes that BMP allows monitoring of BGP sessions on a per-session level rather than just the best routes. This gives visibility into routing history and pre-policy and post-policy routing tables. The snas.io open-source project implements BMP and includes out-of-the-box Grafana dashboards. It collects BMP data using Kafka and stores it in a Postgres database for analysis. While it scales well and is easy to adapt, it does not provide a full routing table view per router. A new monitoring system called DMON is proposed to integrate full network monitoring and analysis.

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BGP Monitoring: SIG-PMV Dublin 2019

The document discusses BGP monitoring and the BMP protocol. It summarizes that BMP allows monitoring of BGP sessions on a per-session level rather than just the best routes. This gives visibility into routing history and pre-policy and post-policy routing tables. The snas.io open-source project implements BMP and includes out-of-the-box Grafana dashboards. It collects BMP data using Kafka and stores it in a Postgres database for analysis. While it scales well and is easy to adapt, it does not provide a full routing table view per router. A new monitoring system called DMON is proposed to integrate full network monitoring and analysis.

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BGP monitoring

SIG-PMV Dublin 2019


Thomas Schmid
[email protected]
problem statement

▸no history of BGP routing information


▹what? when? who?

▸regular BGP session only annonces best routes


▹CLI, netconf?

▸ris.ripe.net and BGPplay only good for an outside perspective

▸iBGPplay dead

▸ other tools commercial or complex or too simple


▹BGPmon
▹BGPreader
▹BGPstream

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BMP

▸BGP monitoring protocol


▹„Telemetry for BGP“ over TCP
▹RFC 7854, IETF GROW WG
▹streams BGP information per BGP session, not per
router as a normal BGP session would
Cisco Config
▹supports multiple AFs, e.g. BGP Linkstate
▹gives ADJ-RIB-In pre-policy and post-policy
bmp server 1
host 2.3.4.5 port 5000
update-source Loopback0
▹unidirectional TCP session: nothing is sent to the initial-delay 60

router
stats-reporting-period 300
initial-refresh delay 60 spread 120
!
▹no best-path selection, i.e. no RIB router bgp 680
neighbor 1.2.3.4
▹ drafts for ADJ-RIB-Out and Loc-RIB bmp-activate server 1

▹more TLVs in the future

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snas.io

▸ originally a Cisco-development, open-source


▹ formerly known as openBMP using pnda.io
▸ https://github.com/SNAS/
▹ chain of docker containers
▹ python API for kafka
▹ logstash integration etc.

BMP

router openbpm kafka postgres grafana


collector message bus database GUI

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o u t - o f- t h e - b o x G U I f e a t u r e s

▸12 dashboards
▹routing history
▹ per AS, per Peer, per Prefix, per Router
▹top-lists
▹IRR/RPKI dashboards
▹ violations, per-AS view
▹inventory
▹looking-glass
▹live AS-view
▹...

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psql database

▸+ timescale DB

▸accessible with standard management tools e.g. pgAdmin

▸well structured and useful to build your own dashboards


▹customer views, iBGP, etc.

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pros and cons

▸ + scales well
▹ currently monitoring almost 2000 BGP sessions
▹ Dell PowerEdge M640, 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4110, 64GB, 500GB SSD
▹ lightweight on the routers
▹ no visible additional load when turning on BMP

▸ + easy to adapt to your specific needs


▹ database has all the information you want

▸ - no easy „full routing table view per router“


▹ focus on changes per neighbor
▹ BGP-table, not RIB
▹ better use quagga and dump BGP table with caida tools BGPstream BGPreader for this purpose
▹ stream mrt data to openbmp collector: mrt2bmp

▸ - development stopped?
▹ no updates since 6months, gitter chat quiet
▹ but already a mature and good product

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new monitoring DMON

▸early stage. The dream:


▹full integrated monitoring and subsitution of existing monitoring tools: cacti, mrtg,
log, ...
▹full view over all network layers
▹full root cause analysis of failures
▹full alarming features
▹great GUI

▸source of truth: GIS


▹central database, OSS/BSS for DFN
▹all dependencies and processes already modeled

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Net
flow GIS

SNMP DMON

Log/
Alarm

NEMO
NEA

BMP

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challenges

▸GIS architecture outdated


▹20 years
▹Adabas DB
▹single threaded
▹middleware CORBA
▹missing real-time APIs
▹ mainly XML exports

▸Telemetry later

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Questions?

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