BGP discovery
overview
When the MPLS-BGP cross-domain correlation feature is enabled, the
MPLS Topology Server
component of
imports from
IP Availability Manager
a
BGP topology collection set named BGP-System. BGP-System contains BGP-enabled
router and switch devices.
The
MPLS Topology Server
uses SNMP and the BGP4-MIB to query the imported routers
and switches for BGP information, and uses instances of certain
VMware Smart Assurance
object classes to create within its repository a data
model representation of the discovered BGP topology. The BGP data model is
shown in
BGP data model.
BGP data
model

The
MPLS Topology Server
also invokes CLI commands to query the managed network for
BGP route reflector information.