/bird-snmp-agent

python based snmp-agent for the bird routing daemon

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

bird-snmp-agent

What?

  • implements an SNMP-AgentX extension for the bird-routing-daemon
  • currently exposes a subset of BGP4- and OSPF-MIB (RFC4273/RFC4750)

How?

To collect its data this agent:

  • uses birdc CLI of bird
  • calls netstat to query information about used tcp-ports
  • reads the bird-configuration-files