Example of Viewing sFlow Configuration (Line Card)
Dell#show sflow Stack-unit 1
Stack-unit 1
Samples rcvd from h/w :0
Total UDP packets exported :0
UDP packets exported via RPM :0
UDP packets dropped :36
Configuring Specify Collectors
The
sflow collector
command allows identification of sFlow collectors to which sFlow datagrams are forwarded.
You can specify up to two sFlow collectors. If you specify two collectors, the samples are sent to both.
•
Identify sFlow collectors to which sFlow datagrams are forwarded.
CONFIGURATION mode
sflow collector
ip-address
agent-addr
ip-address
[
number
[max-datagram-size
number
] ] | [max-
datagram-size
number
]
The default UDP port is
6343
.
The default max-datagram-size is
1400
.
Changing the Polling Intervals
The
sflow polling-interval
command configures the polling interval for an interface in the maximum number of seconds between
successive samples of counters sent to the collector.
This command changes the global default counter polling (20 seconds) interval. You can configure an interface to use a different polling
interval.
To configure the polling intervals globally (in CONFIGURATION mode) or by interface (in INTERFACE mode), use the following command.
•
Change the global default counter polling interval.
CONFIGURATION mode or INTERFACE mode
sflow polling-interval
interval value
•
interval value
: in seconds.
The range is from 15 to 86400 seconds.
The default is
20 seconds
.
Back-Off Mechanism
If the sampling rate for an interface is set to a very low value, the CPU can get overloaded with flow samples under high-traffic conditions.
In such a scenario, a binary back-off mechanism gets triggered, which doubles the sampling-rate (halves the number of samples per
second) for all interfaces. The backoff mechanism continues to double the sampling-rate until the CPU condition is cleared. This is as per
sFlow version 5 draft. After the back-off changes the sample-rate, you must manually change the sampling rate to the desired value.
As a result of back-off, the actual sampling-rate of an interface may differ from its configured sampling rate. You can view the actual
sampling-rate of the interface and the configured sample-rate by using the
show sflow
command.
sFlow
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Summary of Contents for S3048-ON
Page 1: ...Dell Configuration Guide for the S3048 ON System 9 11 2 5 ...
Page 137: ...0 Gi 1 1 Gi 1 2 rx Flow N A N A 0 0 No N A N A yes Access Control Lists ACLs 137 ...
Page 142: ...Figure 10 BFD Three Way Handshake State Changes 142 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection BFD ...
Page 241: ...Dell Control Plane Policing CoPP 241 ...
Page 287: ... RPM Synchronization GARP VLAN Registration Protocol GVRP 287 ...
Page 428: ...Figure 53 Inspecting the LAG Configuration 428 Link Aggregation Control Protocol LACP ...
Page 477: ...Figure 73 Configuring Interfaces for MSDP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 477 ...
Page 478: ...Figure 74 Configuring OSPF and BGP for MSDP 478 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 483: ...Figure 77 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 2 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP 483 ...
Page 484: ...Figure 78 MSDP Default Peer Scenario 3 484 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol MSDP ...
Page 745: ...Figure 104 Single and Double Tag TPID Match Service Provider Bridging 745 ...
Page 746: ...Figure 105 Single and Double Tag First byte TPID Match 746 Service Provider Bridging ...