Monitoring Routing Instances
This topic describes how to monitor VPN routing instances on MX Series routers by using Network Director. Using Network Director, you can determine which interfaces and bridge domains belong to the routing instances and view traffic statistics for those interfaces and bridge domains. You can also display connection information for Layer 2 VPN and virtual private LAN service (VPLS) routing instances.
Network Director can be used to monitor the following types of Layer 2 routing instances:
Default routing instance
Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Layer 2 VPN
VPLS
Virtual switch
Network Director can be used to monitor the following types of Layer 3 routing instances:
Layer 3 VPN
This topic describes:
Procedure for Monitoring Routing Instances
Use the options in the Show Routing Instances window to monitor routing instances.
Show Routing Instances Window
The Show Routing Instances window lists the routing instances configured on a selected device. Use this window to display the interfaces or bridge domains belonging to a routing instance and obtain traffic statistics for the interfaces. You can also display information about the VPLS and Layer 2 VPN connections. Table 1 describes the fields in this window.
Field |
Description |
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Routing Instance Name |
Name of the routing instance. The default routing instance is named default-switch. |
Type |
Identifies the routing instance type:
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Details |
Provides the following information (if configured for the routing instance):
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Interfaces |
Displays the number of interfaces belonging to the routing instance. Click the number to open the Show Interfaces window, described in Show Interfaces Window. |
Bridge Domains |
Displays the number of bridge domains belonging to the routing instance. Click the number to open the Show Bridged Domains window, described in Show Bridge Domains Window. |
Actions |
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Show Interfaces Window
The Show Interfaces window lists the logical interfaces configured on the routing instance and provides the information about the interfaces as described in Table 2.
Field |
Description |
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Interface Name |
The interface name. |
Port Mode |
Indicates one of two modes—Access or Trunk:
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Interface State |
Indicates whether the interface is or . |
STP State |
Indicates whether the interface is in a discarding (blocked) or in forwarding (unblocked) state. (Not shown for interfaces belonging to Layer 2 VPN and Layer 3 VPN routing instances.) |
Local IP Address |
Local IP address. (Shown only for interfaces belonging to Layer 2 VPN and Layer 3 VPN routing instances.) |
Remote IP Address |
Remote IP address. (Shown only for interfaces belonging to Layer 2 VPN and Layer 3 VPN routing instances.) |
Actions |
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Show Bridge Domains Window
The Show Bridge Domains window lists the bridge domains configured on the routing instance. To display information about the VLAN IDs and interfaces configured on a bridge domain, select the bridge domain. Table 3 describes the information provided in the Show Bridge Domains window.
Field |
Description |
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Bridge Domains |
The bridge domain name. |
Actions |
Click Show MAC Table to display the MAC table for the selected bridge domain. For details, see Show MAC Table. |
VLAN ID |
The VLAN ID or IDs assigned to the bridge domain. |
Interface Name |
The name of a logical interface assigned to the VLAN ID. |
Port Mode |
Indicates one of two modes—access or trunk:
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Interface State |
Indicates whether the interface is or . |
STP State |
Indicates whether the interface is in a discarding (blocked) or in forwarding (unblocked) state. |
Actions |
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Show Connections
The Show Connections window provides information about the VPN connections for Layer 2 VPN and VPLS routing instances as described in Table 4.
Field |
Description |
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Local Site Name |
Name of the local site. |
Local Site ID |
Identifier for the local site. |
Local Interface Name |
Name of the local interface. |
Interface Status |
Indicates whether the local interface is or . |
Remote Site ID |
Identifier for the remote site. |
Remote IP |
IP address of the remote provider edge device (PE device). |
Connection Status |
Status of the connection:
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Time Last Up |
The time when the connection was last in the Up condition. |
Show Routing Tables
The Routing Tables window enables you view the routing table information for the selected virtual routing instance. For L3VPN and EVP services, you can determine which LSPs or tunnels are being used by looking at the routing tables.
Routing Tables—The Routing Tables table shows the routing tables associated with the virtual instance and the number of active routes in each table. Click on a routing table to display the actual contents of the routing table.
Details—The Details table shows the contents of the selected routing table. Table 5 displays the fields that are displayed in the Details table.
Name |
Description |
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Routing Instance |
Name of the routing instance. |
Number of Destinations |
Number of destinations for which there are routes in the routing table. |
Active Routes |
Number of routes that are active. |
Hidden Routes |
Number of routes that are not used because of routing policy. |
Hold-down Routes |
Number of routes that are in the hold-down state before being declared inactive. |
Total Routes |
Total number of routes. |
Destination Prefix |
Route destination (for example:10.0.0.1/24). Sometimes the route information is presented in another format, such as:
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State |
State of the route. |
Protocol |
Name of the protocol from which the route was learned.
For example, |
Protocol Preference |
Preferred protocol for this routing instance. Junos OS uses this preference to choose which routes become active in the routing table. |
Age |
Displays how long since the route was learned. |
Metric |
Cost value of the indicated route. For routes within an AS, the cost is determined by the IGP and the individual protocol metrics. For external routes, destinations, or routing domains, the cost is determined by a preference value. |
BGP Local Preference |
A metric used by BGP sessions to indicate the degree of preference for an external route. The route with the highest local preference value is preferred. |
Route Learned From |
Interface from which the route was received. |
AS Path |
AS path through which the route was learned. The letters at the end of the AS path indicate the path origin, providing an indication of the state of the route at the point at which the AS path originated:
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Validation State |
(BGP-learned routes) Validation status of the route:
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Next Hop Type |
Next hop to the destination. An angle bracket (>) indicates that the route is the selected route. If the destination is Discard, traffic is dropped. |
Local Interface |
The local interface used to reach the next hop. |
Address |
IP address of the interface. |
Via Interface |
Interface used to reach the next hop. If there is more than one interface available to the next hop, the interface that is actually used is followed by the word Selected. |
MPLS Label |
MPLS label and operation occurring at the next hop. The operation can be pop (where a label is removed from the top of the stack), push (where another label is added to the label stack), or swap (where a label is replaced by another label). |
Show MAC Table
The Show MAC table window displays the MAC table for the selected routing instance. Table 6 describes the fields that are displayed in the Show MAC Table window.
Field Name |
Description |
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Routing Instance |
Name of the routing instance. |
Type |
Identifies the routing instance type:
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Bridge Domain |
Name of the bridging domain. |
VLAN ID |
VLAN ID of the routing instance or bridge domain in which the MAC address was learned. |
MAC Address |
MAC address or addresses learned on a logical interface. |
MAC Flags |
Status of MAC address learning properties for each interface:
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Logical Interface |
Name of the logical interface. |