neighbor summarize-bgp-events

Defines the rate at which BGP announcement events are sent to the CNA event-manager process.

neighbor <address> summarize-bgp-events <interval>
 
no neighbor <address> summarize-bgp-events
 

• address--IP address of the BGP neighbor
• interval--interval between events, in seconds; range: 0 through 86400

Must be in BGP configuration mode (config-engine-bgp), which requires privileged-level access.

Use once per BGP neighbor.

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The neighbor summarize-bgp-events command determines how frequently BGP-announcement events are sent to the CNA event-manager process, which in turn sends event packets to the Control Panel for display in the web interface Event Log.

If the interval is set to 0, all BGP announcements are sent to the event-manager process as they occur. When this happens, the volume of BGP announcements can overwhelm events from the decision-maker process in the Event Log.

When the interval is set at some number greater than zero, the event-manager process will receive (and pass on to the Control Panel) summary events, which report the number of BGP announcements that were sent during the interval.

For example, if the neighbor summarize-bgp-events interval argument is 60, then the Event Log in the Control Panel will display one BGP summary event at the end of every minute, instead of potentially hundreds of individual BGP announcement events being logged as the minute passes.

A summary event will always be sent at the end of the interval, even if there were no BGP announcements.

The no form of the command will revert to the default.