Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Interpreting an sFlow traffic report

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Include Remaining Talkers

The sFlow monitoring reports display the top five talkers and remaining talkers. To exclude any remaining talkers in the chart area, select this check box.

Report Title and Device Group Name or Device Name and Device IP Address

This field shows the name of the report, followed by one of the following:

•Device group name (Group level): If you selected a report for a device group.

•Device name and IP address: If you selected a report for a device

Date and time

This field shows the date and time the report was requested.

Changing the number of records gathered for sFlow accounting

To change the number of records gathered for sFlow accounting, complete the following steps.

1.Go to the Install_Home/conf/ directory.

2.Open the ipconfig.properties file in a text editor.

3.Change the SFlowAccounting.MaxRowsToFetchPerDevice parameter to the number of records you want gathered for sFlow accounting.

4.Save and close the ipconfig.properties file.

Interpreting an sFlow traffic report

All sFlow traffic reports contain the following sections:

•Navigation arrows.

•Data presented in a graph, if enabled.

•Color legend.

•Data presented in a table, if enabled.

•Total traffic appears in frames and megabytes.

The report header displays the criteria selected for the report.

If the Graph check box is selected, a graph appears below the report header. Data for the most current time on the report is displayed when a report is requested. The navigation arrows in the report header allow you to display the next or previous panel of the report. Refer to the “Selecting a report” on page 1039 for information on what the graph represents.

There are differences in the graphs for periods up to six hours and for the 12 and 24 hour graphs:

•For periods up to 6 hours, the graph shows stacked bars. Each bar represents a flow aggregated for a 2-minute period. Each stack represents all the flows in the system aggregated for a 2-minute period.

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