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Peering Management

The Peering Management module allows you to:

  • Keep track of RPSL objects and their change history.
  • Manage BGP sessions.
  • Automatically or semi-automatically prepare and export up-to-date data to the RIR database.
  • Build prefix lists based on entered data.
  • Receive notifications about changes in the list of IP networks announced by clients.
  • Add additional information to the incident card when classifying a BGP event.

Configuration Procedure for the Module

The initial configuration includes filling in fields that correspond to those in the RIPE DB. Mandatory fields are highlighted in red. If any fields are missing, you can specify these parameters in the Extra field.

  1. Peering Management - Settings - Persons:
  2. Add all necessary objects with the type Persons.

  3. Add all necessary objects with the type Role (noc, abuse, tech, etc.).

  4. Peering Management - Settings - Maintainers:

  5. Add Maintainers.

  6. Peering Management - Settings - Organizations:

  7. Add your organization(s). Specify LIR in the Org. Type if it is an LIR; otherwise, use Other.

  8. Peering Management - Settings - AS Profiles:

  9. Create the necessary profiles with different colors. These colors will be used to mark ASN in the list, for example, to visually differentiate between different subordinate organizations, etc.

Configuration of Basic Parameters

  1. Peering Management - Settings - Peering Groups:

  2. Create all necessary groups that will be used to categorize our sessions, for example, left (uplinks), right (downlinks), etc. Here you can specify basic parameters that affect route priority and apply to the entire group.

  3. Peering Management - ASes:

  4. Add all your autonomous systems with which you will work. After adding, modifying, or deleting sessions with these ASes in Peering Management - Peers, you can generate a description for this object (AS) in RIPEDB. To do this, simply re-save the required AS and click the magnifying glass icon.

  5. Peering Management - Settings - Peering Points:

  6. Add all routers where you will establish BGP sessions (sessions you want to track). The checkbox Enable Prefix-List Provisioning enables the function of periodically querying prefixes for all entered sessions from the RIR database. If changes are detected, a notification is sent to the Prefix-List Notification Group. If there is no profile for the used router, select Generic.

  7. Peering Management - Communities and AS Sets:

  8. Add all your communities and AS-sets that you plan to use.

Adding BGP Sessions

In the Peering Management - Peers section, add a new record with mandatory fields filled in as follows:

  • Peering Point - The equipment on which the session will be created.
  • Peer Group - The group type (Clients, Providers, etc.) of the session.
  • Project - The contract number.
  • Local AS - The local Autonomous System (AS) number.
  • Remote AS - The remote AS number (the client's, provider's, or other side).
  • Status - The planned status (e.g., active, planned activation, deactivated).
  • Local IP - The local IP address on our side (with network mask).
  • Remote IP - The remote IP address on the opposite side (with network mask).
  • Description - You can specify a brief organization name for which the session is being set up. This field can be used in incident text templates.
  • RPSL Remark - A brief organization name in lowercase using only Latin letters, numbers, hyphens (-), or underscores (_). This field is used for comments in RPSL ASN descriptions and can also be used in naming certain objects when configuring equipment using personal scripts or snippets.
  • Import Filter - An AS-SET or Autonomous System number (e.g., AS12345) provided by the client to generate a list of their networks. If the session is not set up for a client, specify the name of the policy statement that will be used in this session.
  • Export Filter - The name of the filter for outgoing announcements or an AS-SET on which the opposite side will build their filters.
  • Import Communities - Specify traffic management communities separated by a space. For example, RTK-3P (if the router supports it in text form) or 65535:666.