bgp

bgpIncomingDynamicPeerLimitReached

Table 1. bgpIncomingDynamicPeerLimitReached properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpIncomingDynamicPeerLimitReached

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, an incoming BGP connection from peer-address was rejected because the limit for the maximum number of incoming dynamic peers, max-sessions, has been reached.

Cause

The configured limit on the number of incoming sessions associated with dynamic peers has been reached.

Effect

The incoming connection attempt is rejected.

bgpInstanceConvergenceStateTransition

Table 2. bgpInstanceConvergenceStateTransition properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpInstanceConvergenceStateTransition

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP convergence state for the address-family address family transitioned from the previous-state state to the new-state state

Cause

This event is generated when the BGP convergence process is being tracked and a state transition occurs

Effect

Dependent on the new state

bgpLowMemory

Table 3. bgpLowMemory properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpLowMemory

Default severity

critical

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was terminated immediately because BGP has out of memory.

Cause

BGP has run out of memory and this peer has been shutdown to reclaim some memory.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborBackwardTransition

Table 4. bgpNeighborBackwardTransition properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborBackwardTransition

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address moved from higher state last-state to lower state session-state due to event last-event

Cause

This event is generated when the BGP FSM moves from a higher numbered state to a lower numbered state.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborClosedTCPConn

Table 5. bgpNeighborClosedTCPConn properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborClosedTCPConn

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was closed because the neighbor closed the TCP connection.

Cause

The router received a TCP FIN message from its peer.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborEstablished

Table 6. bgpNeighborEstablished properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborEstablished

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address moved into the ESTABLISHED state

Cause

The BGP session entered the ESTABLISHED state.

Effect

Routes of negotiated address families can now be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborGRHelpingStarted

Table 7. bgpNeighborGRHelpingStarted properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborGRHelpingStarted

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the router has started providing GR helper service to the neighbor peer-address

Cause

GR helper is activated

Effect

Routes previously received from the peer, prior to its restart, are retained as stale until the stale-routes-time expires.

bgpNeighborGRHelpingStopped

Table 8. bgpNeighborGRHelpingStopped properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborGRHelpingStopped

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the router has stopped providing GR helper service to the neighbor peer-address

Cause

GR helper is deactivated

Effect

Any remaining stale routes are immediately removed.

bgpNeighborHoldTimeExpired

Table 9. bgpNeighborHoldTimeExpired properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborHoldTimeExpired

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was terminated because a KEEPALIVE message was not received before the holdtime limit of negotiated-hold-time was reached.

Cause

BGP did not receive a KEEPALIVE message from the peer before the negotiated holdtime expired.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborInvalidLocalIP

Table 10. bgpNeighborInvalidLocalIP properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborInvalidLocalIP

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, an incoming BGP connection from peer-address was rejected because the destination IP address does not match the allowed local-address, local-address.

Cause

BGP configuration does not allow an incoming BGP connection to this IP address.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborNoOpenReceived

Table 11. bgpNeighborNoOpenReceived properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborNoOpenReceived

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was terminated because an OPEN message was not received before the configured holdtime limit was reached.

Cause

BGP did not receive an OPEN message from the peer before the configured holdtime expired.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNeighborPrefixLimitReached

Table 12. bgpNeighborPrefixLimitReached properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborPrefixLimitReached

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the number of family routes received from the neighbor peer-address has exceeded the configured limit.

Cause

The number of received routes from the peer has exceeded the configured limit for the associated address family.

Effect

No effect. Routes above the limit are still received and processed.

bgpNeighborPrefixLimitThresholdReached

Table 13. bgpNeighborPrefixLimitThresholdReached properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborPrefixLimitThresholdReached

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the number of family routes received from the neighbor peer-address has exceeded the configured threshold, which is warning-threshold-pct% of the limit.

Cause

The number of received routes from the peer has exceeded the configured threshold for the associated address family.

Effect

No effect. Routes above the threshold are still received and processed.

bgpNeighborUnknownRemoteIP

Table 14. bgpNeighborUnknownRemoteIP properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNeighborUnknownRemoteIP

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, an incoming BGP connection from peer-address was rejected because the source IP address does not match the address of any configured neighbor or any dynamic-neighbor block.

Cause

BGP configuration does not allow an incoming BGP connection from this IP address.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNLRIInvalid

Table 15. bgpNLRIInvalid properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNLRIInvalid

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, a route for NLRI nlri was received from neighbor peer-address and it was ignored because it is considered an invalid NLRI.

Cause

The router received an UPDATE with an invalid NLRI

Effect

The route associated with the NLRI is not added or removed from the BGP RIB.

bgpNotificationReceivedFromNeighbor

Table 16. bgpNotificationReceivedFromNeighbor properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNotificationReceivedFromNeighbor

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was closed because the neighbor sent a NOTIFICATION with code last-notification-error-code and subcode last-notification-error-subcode

Cause

The router received a NOTIFICATION message from its peer.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpNotificationSentToNeighbor

Table 17. bgpNotificationSentToNeighbor properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpNotificationSentToNeighbor

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, the BGP session with peer-address was closed because the router sent this neighbor a NOTIFICATION with code last-notification-error-code and subcode last-notification-error-subcode

Cause

The router sent a NOTIFICATION message to its peer.

Effect

No routes can be exchanged with this peer.

bgpOutgoingDynamicPeerLimitReached

Table 18. bgpOutgoingDynamicPeerLimitReached properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpOutgoingDynamicPeerLimitReached

Default severity

notice

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, no session was initiated towards the LLDP-discovered address peer-address because the limit for the maximum number of outgoing dynamic peers, max-sessions, has been reached.

Cause

The configured limit on the number of outgoing sessions associated with dynamic peers has been reached.

Effect

No connection attempt is made by the router.

bgpPathAttributeDiscarded

Table 19. bgpPathAttributeDiscarded properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpPathAttributeDiscarded

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, a path attribute of type attribute-type and length attribute-length was discarded in a route received from the neighbor peer-address.

Cause

The path attribute was malformed and the attribute-discard approach is used for this type of attribute.

Effect

The intended meaning of that path attribute is not applied but the UPDATE message is still processed for new reachabiity information.

bgpPathAttributeMalformed

Table 20. bgpPathAttributeMalformed properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpPathAttributeMalformed

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, a path attribute of type attribute-type and length attribute-length that was received in a route from the neighbor peer-address was considered malformed.

Cause

The router considers a path attribute to be malformed, for example not the expected length. The UPDATE message can still be parsed though.

Effect

Dependent on the type of the malformed path attribute. Either the malformed attribute is discarded or else the entire UPDATE message is considered to have unreachable NLRI.

bgpRouteWithdrawnDueToError

Table 21. bgpRouteWithdrawnDueToError properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpRouteWithdrawnDueToError

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, a route for NLRI nlri was received from neighbor peer-address and it was considered withdrawn because of a recoverable error in the UPDATE message.

Cause

The router received a malformed UPDATE and the malformed path attribute(s) require as a treat-as-withdraw error handling behavior for the included set of routes.

Effect

There is no reachability for the NLRI in the malformed UPDATE message.

bgpUpdateInvalid

Table 22. bgpUpdateInvalid properties

Property name

Value

Application name

bgp

Event name

bgpUpdateInvalid

Default severity

warning

Message format string

In network-instance network-instance, an UPDATE message received from neighbor peer-address was considered invalid and caused the connection to be closed because the NLRI could not be parsed correctly.

Cause

The router received a malformed UPDATE which made it is impossible to identify all of the NLRI correctly.

Effect

The session is shutdown.