BGP Monitoring System (BGPmon) is designed to monitor BGP updates 
and routing tables from BGP routers.

It uses modular architecture to scalably monitor many BGP routers
by distributed deployment while allowing a consolidated and neat 
interface to end users. BGPmon uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for BGP data. 
This format can accurately record BGP data without any information loss and
it is extendable for possible new features in BGP updates.

1. INSTALLATION

To install BGPmon you need to have root access or sudo access

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. `./configure' to configure the package for your system.

     Running `configure' might take a while.  While running, it prints
     some messages telling which features it is checking for.

  2. Type `make' to compile the package.

  3. Type `sudo make install' to install the programs 
     and any data files and documentation. 
     
After successful installation you will have:

  3.1  /usr/local/bin/bgpmon - executable BGPmon program
  3.2  /usr/local/etc/bgpmon_config.txt - default configuration file

2. STARTUP and SHUTDOWN

sudo service bgpmon start 
sudo service bgpmon stop


3. Contact
     
     bgpmon@netsec.colostate.edu