Working with Peering Sessions

Sessions Subtab

The Sessions subtab is where current sessions may be added, managed, and updated. View details for a session by clicking on the session name. Update the session states for all sessions by clicking the "Update Session States" button.

Add a Session

Add a new session by clicking the "Add Session" button, which will direct to a page to input the session details. 

Enter the session details and router, then select the Peer Destination.

When done, click the "Save" button. If "Configure router after saving" was selected, the router will configure and automatically load the sessions page when done.

Session Details Page

Clicking on a Session entry in the list will open the Session details page. 

From here, new session may be created, but it is primarily for session management. The Session may be manually configured via "Config Manager", or automatically via "Configure". 

"Email" opens an Email communications form, with data automatically generated from PeeringDB. Other available tasks include Admin Up/Down, Edit, and Delete session. 

Session Details Actions

Edit: Edit session information such as Type, Prefixes, Notes or MD5.

Configure: 1-click configure which uses default router configuration, username, and password settings. 

Config Manager: The Config Manager allows for custom configuration commands and user-level username/ password to be entered prior to pushing the config. This is a one time use configuration.

Email: Brings up the NOC (Network Operations Center), Policy, Technical, or other preset email template. The email template pre-populates data based on peeringdb data (To address, Subject line and Peering exchange information). You have the chance to edit the email prior to sending. 

Admin Up: Ups a bgp session without removing it or adding it to the config.

Admin Down: Downs a bgp session without removing it or adding it to the config. On Cisco, Admin Down moves the session to Idle (Admin) state, on Juniper it deactivates the session.

Delete: Sessions of type "Peer" are removed from the router when deleted in ProVision. Other sessions will only be removed from the sessions list in ProVision.