Service Manual

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 on LAG ports
When a physical port becomes a member of a LAG, it inherits the sFlow configuration from the LAG port.
Enabling Extended sFlow
Extended sFlow packs additional information in the sFlow datagram depend on the type of sampled packet. The platform
supports extended-switch information processing only.
Extended sFlow packs additional information in the sFlow datagram depending on the type of sampled packet. You can enable
the following options:
● extended-switch — 802.1Q VLAN ID and 802.1p priority information.
● extended-router — Next-hop and source and destination mask length.
● extended-gateway — Source and destination AS number and the BGP next-hop.
NOTE: The entire AS path is not included. BGP community-list and local preference information are not included. These
fields are assigned default values and are not interpreted by the collector.
● Enable extended sFlow.
sflow [extended-switch] [extended-router] [extended-gateway] enable
By default packing of any of the extended information in the datagram is disabled.
● Confirm that extended information packing is enabled.
show sflow
The bold line shows that extended sflow setting is enabled for extended switch.
DellEMC#show sflow
sFlow services are enabled
Egress Management Interface sFlow services are disabled
Global default sampling rate: 32768
Global default counter polling interval: 20
Global default extended maximum header size: 128 bytes
Global extended information enabled: switch
1 collectors configured
Collector IP addr: 100.1.1.1, Agent IP addr: 1.1.1.2, UDP port: 6343 VRF: Default
0 UDP packets exported
3 UDP packets dropped
0 sFlow samples collected
stack-unit 1 Port set 0
Hu 1/2/1: configured rate 131072, actual rate 131072
DellEMC#
If you did not enable any extended information, the show output displays the following (shown in bold).
DellEMC#show sflow
sFlow services are disabled
Global default sampling rate: 32768
Global default counter polling interval: 20
Global extended information enabled: none
0 collectors configured
0 UDP packets exported
0 UDP packets dropped
0 sFlow samples collected
0 sFlow samples dropped due to sub-sampling
sFlow
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