Routing Neighbors provide correlated insights that let you tie route flaps to unstable peers, peer issues to interface health, and see which VRFs are affected by peer problems.

With Routing neighbors, you can monitor:

• Peer protocol details (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) in a unified dashboard, helping you understand overall control‑plane activity.

• Peer identity and role, including IP address and ASN, giving context for how each peer fits into the routing topology.

• Peer health and session state, such as admin state and last error, helping you recognize failing or impaired peers.

• Peer flap counts, making instability visible and helping you pinpoint recurring disruptions.

Access Routing neighbors

If you have a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license, you can access the Network Insights dashboard. In SolarWinds Observability, click My Dashboards > Routing Insights, and then click the Routing Neighbors tab.

Routing neighbor pollers

Neighbors are polled for BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP protocols. You can select a poller when adding a node or by using List Resources.

Poller name	MIBs	OID required
N.Neighbor.SNMP.OSPF	OSPF-MIB	1.3.6.1.2.1.14.1.2
N.Neighbor.SNMP.OSPFv3	OSPFV3-MIB	1.3.6.1.2.1.191.1.1.2
N.Neighbor.SNMP.OSPFv3Juniper	OSPFV3-MIB-JUNIPER	1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.5.4.1.1.9.1
N.Neighbor.SNMP.BGP	BGP4-MIB	1.3.6.1.2.1.15.1
N.Neighbor.SNMP.EIGRP	CISCO-EIGRP-MIB	1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.449.1.4

Map routes to routing neighbors

Mapping routes to routing neighbors shows neighbor status in the Routing Table and VRF in Routing Neighbors.

Mapping routes to neighbors is always enabled. By default, a route is mapped as a neighbor when:

• The NextHopIP matches a neighbor’s IP address.
• ProtocolID must also match.

To improve coverage and accuracy of neighbor relationships, enable additional mapping settings for BGP and Cisco EIGRP.

Enabled additional mapping settings can poll a large amount of data and may affect device performance. By default, polling runs once every 3 hours.

Map BGP path attributes

Enable additional polling from BGP4-MIB to override the default mapping and improve mapping accuracy.

1. In SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click Settings > All Settings.

2. Click Polling Settings in the Thresholds & Polling Settings.

3. Scroll down to the Routing Polling section.

4. Select the Poll Additional BGP Data... box.

5. Submit your changes.

Now, additional BGP path attribute data is polled to improve the accuracy of mapping routing table entries to their neighbors.

Map EIGRP path attributes

Enable additional polling from CISCO-EIGRP-MIB to override the default mapping and improve mapping accuracy.

1. In SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click Settings > All Settings.

2. Click Polling Settings in the Thresholds & Polling Settings.

3. Scroll down to the Routing Polling section.

4. Select the Poll Additional Cisco EIGRP Data... box.

5. Submit your changes.

Now, additional EIGRP path attribute data is polled to improve the accuracy of mapping routing table entries to their neighbors.