Path Monitoring for Alerting Only

[Luke_R]

Hi,

I'm interested in using path monitoring for alerting. I'm aware that it can be used with PBF, static routes, HA, etc, but that's not quite what I'm after. I have BGP to manage that side of things.

I would like to monitor the path to the internet. Perhaps pinging the provider's gateway IP and looking for responses. If the link goes down or if the ping responses stop, I would then like to generate an alert.

I guess this is a bit like an IP SLA on a Cisco router.

Can I use path monitoring for this? If not, is there another way to collect this information?

Thanks

[reaper · Accepted solution]

does path monitoring need to be attached to your BGP configuration or does it simply need to exist?

you can set a static route in your VirtualRouter and enable path monitoring with a monitoring profile set to wait-recover, that will simply generate an alert whenever the path destination is unreachable

[Luke_R]

So this could just be a dummy route for the purposes of monitoring only?

OK. I'll give it a try, thanks!