Technical Tip: How to enable Route health injection (RHI) for BGP

[Khidzir_MN]

Description	This article describes how to enable Route health injection (RHI) for BGP. It is maybe necessary to preconfigure other respective Virtual Server setup and BGP setup and refer to the documentation at the end of this article for more information on configuring Virtual Server and BGP.
Scope	FortiADC and FortiADC-VM v6.2.0 or later.
Solution	Route health injection (RHI) allows advertising routes for the Virtual Server IP (VIP) addresses based on the health status of the respective virtual server. There is a requirement to advertise or remove the routes for the respective VIP addresses based on their health status to respective BGP neighbors. There is no menu or option to enable the RHI. The respective VIP needs to be added under the respective BGP Network configuration. From GUI: 1. Go to Network -> Routing -> BGP (tab). 2. Under Network, select Create New and add the respective VIP and Save. 3. Select Save again on the BGP page. From CLI: config router bgp       config network            edit 2               set prefix 192.168.10.110/32            next       end end Below example of when the VIP status is Healthy (The respective VIP is advertised by FortiADC): Below example of when the VIP status is Dead (The respective VIP is not advertised by FortiADC): Related documents: Configuring virtual servers Configuring BGP routes Route health injection (RHI) Technical Tip: How to enable Route health injection (RHI) for OSPF