I know this was already answered, but since I just talked a bit about this in Tampa.... Adjacency traps and adjacency state variables of any kind can be very useful. Since the BGP ones were already posted, I'll just say that similar state variables are available in the OSPF MIB, such as ospfNbrState. Some boxes are capable of sending traps for state transitions of these variables. Similar things are available for other adjacency-like things. For exmaple, pppLinkCurrentState (and doing threshold monitoring on PPP LQM stuff is a horribly good idea wherever you might be using PPP). I also mentioned one reasonable way of watching for link congestion. Correlate link utilization (via if[In|Out]Octets and if[In|Out]Pkts) against if[In|Out]Errors and if[In|Out]Discards. In this last set, in my experience ifOutDiscards is usually more useful than ifInDiscards. Usually, ifOutDiscards (if the agent is doing the right thing) is a good touchstone for congestion; it's incremented when a packet is valid but was dropped for another reason. In my experience, that reason is usually congestion (output queue is full, hence packet is sent to bit bucket). Where available, it's also wise to put queue lengths and drops in the correlation mix here. See the Cisco lsystem table for some of these. However, my advice on queue drops is to stick with MIB-II ifOutDiscards unless you find it erroneous or not really getting you the answer you need. Why? Because you should be able to apply it across most of your devices (including your host-based services if you have any) and not have to use an enterprise MIB which doesn't exist on another vendor's product (and if something similar exists, may not be semantically equivalent). Hope this helps. Daniel ~~~~~~

We have been caught several times lately with some of our border routers loss of BGP peering going undetected for sometime. Is there a way to enable BGP peering loss monitoring via SNMP from a CISCO router? I've looked at both the public and private MIBS but haven't found anything.

I am aware of the 'nocol' package but really was hoping for an SNMP based approach to tie into our net-mgmt packages (sunnet and hpov).

TIA

--curtis -- Curtis Generous generous@uucom.com Phone: (703) 461-1350 UUcom Inc., Suite 250, 4875 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304-0797