topic Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI in Firewall and Security Management

Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

Petr_Hantak — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:41:37 GMT

I need to check quite often during maintenance windows how it looks with BGP peers before and after change steps. Especially on VSX is useful to get a quick way how to check something across all virtual systems. Following command list you all BGP peers across virtual systems. It works on non-vsx as well.

Command:

echo -e "\e[36m+++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n++ BGP peers status ++\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n";for i in /proc/vrf/*; do i=${i#*vrf/}; echo -n -e "\e[93m"; vsenv $i | grep -e "Contex" | sed 's/^Context is set to Virtual Device //' | sed 's/ID/Context/'; echo -n -e "\e[0m"; echo "set virtual-system" $i > /tmp/clishcmd; echo "show bgp peers" >> /tmp/clishcmd; clish -i -f /tmp/clishcmd | grep -vi -e "contex" -e "show" -e "done" -e "flag" -e"^$"; echo; done

Original command idea how to list across contexts is not my own. I got is as advice during TAC case some years ago. You can basically use it to list anything (blue area) in case you are fine with little messy output. It is just simple setup of cmd file for clish:

for i in /proc/vrf/*; do i=${i#*vrf/}; vsenv $i; echo "set virtual-system" $i > /tmp/clishcmd; echo "show bgp peers" >> /tmp/clishcmd; clish -i -f /tmp/clishcmd; done

Hope you'll enjoy it.

Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

HeikoAnkenbrand — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:29:48 GMT

I am like oneliner.

From me 1oo points!

Regards

Heiko

Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

Petr_Hantak — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:13:44 GMT

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

Danny — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:10:04 GMT

Maybe you could use column to show the rows more nicely formatted?

Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

Parminder_Singh — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:50:09 GMT

Hi Peter

I want to do the same thing but that script only works for the old kernel VSX, it would need to be updated for the new kernel (specifically the “for i in /proc/vrf/*; do i=${i#*vrf/}” part because they use namespace now instead of vrf.

Re: Show bgp peers across VSX in CLI

Vincent_Bacher — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:41:36 GMT

Maybe something like this?

echo -e "\e[36m+++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n++ BGP peers status ++\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n"; for i in $(cpstat vsx -f stat | awk -F'|' '/Virtual System/ {gsub(/ /,"",$2); print $2}'); do echo -n -e "\e[93m"; vsenv $i | grep -e "Contex" | sed 's/^Context is set to Virtual Device //' | sed 's/ID/Context/'; echo -n -e "\e[0m"; echo "set virtual-system $i" > /tmp/clishcmd; echo "show bgp peers" >> /tmp/clishcmd; clish -i -f /tmp/clishcmd 2>/dev/null | grep -vi -e "contex" -e "show" -e "done" -e "flag" -e "^$" -e "not configured" -e "CLICMD0159" -e "RTGRTG0019" -e "BGP: Local Autonomous System is not configured."; echo; done