Users Guide

• 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 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 depending on the type of sampled packet. The S-Series and Z9100–
ON platforms support 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 settings are enabled on all three types.
Dell#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: none
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
0 UDP packets dropped
0 sFlow samples collected
stack-unit 1 Port set 0
Gi 1/1: configured rate 16384, actual rate 16384
Dell#
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