Diagnosing Switch Problems
sFlow Overview
The following sections detail the specifications, defaults, and quick set up steps for the sFlow feature.
Detailed procedures are found in
Note. sFlow is only supported on the OmniSwitch 6850 and OmniSwitch 9000 for this release.
sFlow Specifications
RFCs Supported
Sampling
Agent IP Address
sFlow Defaults
The following table shows sFlow default values:
sFlow Defaults
Parameter Description
Receiver Name
Timeout Value
IP Address
Data File Size
Version Number
Destination Port
Receiver Index
Packet Sampling Rate
Sampled Packet Size
Receiver Index
Interval Value
OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Network Configuration Guide
"sFlow" on page
35-29.
3176 - sFlow
Management Information Base
Sampling rate of one (1) counts all packets and 0
(zero) disables sampling.
As it need to send a fixed IP address in the data-
gram, loopback0 IP address is used.
CLI Command
sflow receiver
sflow receiver
sflow receiver
sflow receiver
sflow receiver
sflow receiver
sflow sampler
sflow sampler
sflow sampler
sflow poller
sflow poller
March 2008
sFlow Overview
Default Value/Comments
Empty
0 seconds
32 bit address (IPv4)
1400 Bytes
5
6343
0
0
128 Bytes
0
0 seconds
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