When managing peering networks that are connected using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), you might need to find out if a path exists between the J-series or SRX-series device and its configured BGP neighbors. You can ping each BGP neighbor manually to determine the connection status, but this method is not practical when the device has a large number of BGP neighbors configured.
In the device, you can configure RPM probes to monitor the BGP neighbors and determine if they are active.
For BGP configuration information, see the JUNOS Software Interfaces and Routing Configuration Guide.