BMP

Overview

BMP is a protocol used for monitoring BGP sessions. BMP allows a BGP router (BMP client) to advertise unprocessed routing information it has received from its peers to a monitoring station. The peer can be configured to send pre policy route information, post policy information, or both. The monitoring station can then monitor routing table size, identify issues and monitor trends in table size and update and withdraw frequency.

A BMP client is configured to create monitoring sessions using TCP with one or more monitoring stations.

The following are some of the messages provided by BMP during a monitoring session: