A work in progress

• cd $REPO/bgp-dashboard/src
• python3 -m unittest

get a list of the "show ip bgp" data from a cisco router

• cloginrc
• paramiko
• text file

The program should take a "show ip bgp" input and provide a list of all next hop entities. Allow for tracking and notification of changes to a set of "monitored" ASN numbers.

e.g.

Website ideas: A "realtime" dashboard with stats:

• Total number of bgp peers
• Total prefixes received from each peer
• Number of routes using that BGP peer as a next hop
• Next hop provider for a list of monitored ASN numbers
• Configure alerts for monitored ASN numbers next hop provider changes (email, pager, etc...)
• Ability to search for ASN/IP and find the next hop and full AS path

Thoughts:

• Use BMP via ExaBGP to monitor realtime BGP changes
• How to monitor routes in the routing table vs other "available" routes to the destination

Get Data The program should log into the router a $TIME interval and pull the "show ip bgp" and "show ip bgp ipv6 unicast" for parsing

CLI: bgp-dashboard.py 15169 -f bgp-data.txt Is 15169 a peer? Print JSON "y" or "n" If "y", print misc details: - next_hop_ip - number of prefixes that use this ASN as next hop - list/count of next-hop-asns connected to this ASN

bgp-dashboard.py 15169 --next-hop-asn -f bgp-data.txt Returns a list (JSON) of next hop ASNs for all routes for under 15169

bgp-dashboard.py 15169 --routes -f bgp-data.txt Returns a list (JSON) of all routes under 15169 All route details provided

bgp-dashboard.py 15169 --routes --brief -f bgp-data.txt Returns a list (JSON) of all routes under 15169 Just the prefix is provided

bgp-dashboard.py -f bgp-data.txt Return a list (JSON) of all peers

• Total number of peers
  • AS Number of peer
  • Name via cmyru dns
  • Total routes
  • Unique next-hop-asns
    • Count of routes associated with each next-hop-asn

bgp-dashboard.py --table-size -f bgp-data.txt Return the number for routes

bgp-dashboard.py --as-count -f bgp-data.txt Return the number for routes