palo alto bgp monitoring

i'm trying to monitor PAN OS bgp peer status , in PAN OS you have a limited SNMP MIB's that does not have any OID for bgp protocol or bgp peering status .

and my goal is to create a monitor through the custom REST sensor because PAN OS have access to bgp protocol or bgp peering status through the API on the appliance .

the problem is that i cant manage to figure out what and which arguments should be in the "*.template" and were to do the lookup's .

REST query :

output example for the API XML answer :

<response status="success">
	<result>
		<entry peer="Peer-name" vr="XXXXXX">
			<peer-group>peer-group-name</peer-group>
			<peer-router-id>xx.xx.xx.xx</peer-router-id>
			<remote-as>xxxxx</remote-as>
			<status>Established</status>
			<status-duration>0</status-duration>
			<password-set>yes</password-set>
			<passive>no</passive>
			<multi-hop-ttl>0</multi-hop-ttl>
			<peer-address>x.x.x.x:0</peer-address>
			<local-address>x.x.x.x:0</local-address>
			<reflector-client>not-client</reflector-client>
			<same-confederation>no</same-confederation>
			<aggregate-confed-as>yes</aggregate-confed-as>
			<peering-type>Unspecified</peering-type>
			<connect-retry-interval>0</connect-retry-interval>
			<open-delay>0</open-delay>
			<idle-hold>0</idle-hold>
			<prefix-limit>0</prefix-limit>
			<holdtime>0</holdtime>
			<holdtime-config>0</holdtime-config>
			<keepalive>0</keepalive>
			<keepalive-config>0</keepalive-config>
			<msg-update-in>0</msg-update-in>
			<msg-update-out>0</msg-update-out>
			<msg-total-in>0</msg-total-in>
			<msg-total-out>0</msg-total-out>
			<last-update-age>0</last-update-age>
			<last-error>Cease (6) : connection rejected (5)</last-error>
			<status-flap-counts>0</status-flap-counts>
			<established-counts>0</established-counts>
			<ORF-entry-received>0</ORF-entry-received>
			<nexthop-self>no</nexthop-self>
			<nexthop-thirdparty>yes</nexthop-thirdparty>
			<nexthop-peer>no</nexthop-peer>
			<config>
				<remove-private-as>yes</remove-private-as>
			</config>
			<peer-capability>
				<list>
					<capability>Multiprotocol Extensions(1)</capability>
					<value>xxxxxx</value>
				</list>
				<list>
					<capability>Route Refresh(2)</capability>
					<value>yes</value>
				</list>
				<list>
					<capability>Graceful Restart(64)</capability>
					<value>xxxxx</value>
				</list>
				<list>
					<capability>4-Byte AS Number(65)</capability>
					<value>xxxxx</value>
				</list>
				<list>
					<capability>Route Refresh (Cisco)(128)</capability>
					<value>yes</value>
				</list>
			</peer-capability>
			<prefix-counter>
				<entry afi-safi="xxxxxxxxxx">
					<incoming-total>xxxx</incoming-total>
					<incoming-accepted>xxxx</incoming-accepted>
					<incoming-rejected>0</incoming-rejected>
					<outgoing-total>0</outgoing-total>
					<outgoing-advertised>0</outgoing-advertised>
				</entry>
			</prefix-counter>
		</entry>
	</result>
</response>

i want to get the peer name ,peer group name ,bgp status and bgp peer adreess from that output .

• bgp-peer-name -
  • <entry peer="peer-name" vr="XXXXXX">
• bgp-peer-group-name -
  • <peer-group>peer-group-name</peer-group>
• bgp-status -
  • <status>Established</status>
• bgp-peer-address -
  • <peer-address>X.X.X.X:XXX</peer-address>

i understand that i need to do some lookup's for "translating" the text arguments to numerical like the peer and peer group names and the bgp status .

i appreciate any help regarding that issue.

thx Dor.

api bgp paloalto