ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB

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Organization: Arista Networks, Inc.

Last Updated: 2014-08-15

Category: Vendor: Arista

Description: Arista EOS BGP4 version 2 peer session state and prefix statistics management.

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What Is ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB?

ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB is Arista Networks' homing of the IETF draft BGP4-MIB version 2 (draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-13) into Arista's enterprise OID tree without functional modification, providing standard BGP peer session and routing-table statistics for Arista EOS switches/routers. It exposes BGP peer identification and session state (idle/connect/established), negotiated capabilities, and per-peer prefix/route counters for IPv4 and IPv6 address families. Its monitoring value centers on routing-protocol software health rather than hardware: peer session state reveals whether BGP adjacencies are up or flapping, and prefix counters reveal whether a peer is sending an expected route count, both critical for catching routing instability, session resets, or route loss. As a direct homing of the IETF draft BGP4-MIBv2, it is explicitly dependent on and structurally identical to that standard, with no other original content. It is deployed on Arista EOS switches/routers running BGP in data-center or service-provider environments where NMS tools poll BGP peer health as part of routing infrastructure monitoring. Engineers can download the ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Arista Networks EOS switches and routers running BGP

Monitoring Examples

Since no sample_objects were provided for this module, a realistic scenario would follow the standard BGP4-MIBv2 pattern of polling the peer table for peer session state to detect a peer transitioning out of 'established,' and accepted-prefix counters to catch an unexpected drop or spike in received routes. Without concrete object names in this batch, specific table/column names cannot be confirmed, but the underlying draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2 structure is well known and Arista's module mirrors it exactly.

What Can Be Monitored

  • BGP peer session state
  • peer negotiated capabilities
  • accepted/advertised prefix counts per peer
  • BGP session uptime/reset events
Imported Objects

From ARISTA-BGP4V2-TC-MIB

AristaBgp4V2AddressFamilyIdentifierTC
AristaBgp4V2IdentifierTC
AristaBgp4V2SubsequentAddressFamilyIdentifierTC

From ARISTA-SMI-MIB

aristaExperimentOBJECT-IDENTITY

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressPrefixLength
InetAddressType
InetAutonomousSystemNumber
InetPortNumber

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

RowPointer
TimeStamp
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using aristaBgp4V2PeerInUpdates OID:

Select an Arista Networks EOS switch as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type aristaBgp4V2PeerInUpdates into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. The number of BGP UPDATE messages received on this connection. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Arista BGP version 4 MIB providing protocol management for routing and autonomous system configuration.

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Download ARISTA-BGP4V2-MIB