As you may have already realised I am always looking for ways to speed up my day to day tasks.

Every few days I check my BGP peering to see if there are any sessions down and then give the peers the obligatory nudge to reset a session.

Normally I run ‘ show bgp sum | i Active’ or Idle/Open which gives me a list of peers that are not in an ‘established’ state.  This means running a seperate command for each Active/Idle/Open session.

Thats far too much like hard work so i started to see what other option were available after the |  .  One of them is utility egrep! So, after 7 mins of trying to run commands and finally realising I have to escape the | i have came up with the below:-

show bgp summary | utility egrep ‘Idle| Active| Open’

Hope it helps you save some time!

Nick