No BGP Session alarms are generated when BGP Endpoint or Physical Interface is set to Administratively Down.
Environment
VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS
Cause
BGP is configured by default to suppress BGP Session Notifications due to Administratively Down. By default, the bgp.conf file is set with the called AdminDownFlag set to FALSE.
Resolution
Edit the <basedir>/IP/smarts/local/conf/BGP/ bgp.conf file