The mechanism involves a counter that is decremented with each packet. When the counter reaches zero a sample is taken.

5.When a sample is taken, the counter indicating how many packets to skip before taking the next sample is reset. The value of the counter is set to a random integer where the sequence of random integers used over time is the Sampling Rate.

Counter Sampling

The primary objective of Counter Sampling is to efficiently, periodically export counters associated with Data Sources. A maximum Sampling Interval is assigned to each sFlow instance associated with a Data Source.

Counter Sampling is accomplished as follows:

sFlow Agents keep a list of counter sources being sampled.

When a Packet Flow Sample is generated the sFlow Agent examines the list and adds counters to the sample datagram, least recently sampled first. Counters are only added to the datagram if the sources are within a short period, 5 seconds say, of failing to meet the required Sampling Interval.

Periodically, say every second, the sFlow Agent examines the list of counter sources and sends any counters that must be sent to meet the sampling interval requirement.

The set of counters is a fixed set.

CLI Examples

The following are examples of the commands used for sFlow.

Example #1: Configure destination IP address and maxdatagram size for an sFlow receiver index

console(config)#sflow 1 destination 30.30.30.1 560

Example #2: Configure sFlow on an Ethernet interface range with a polling interval of 200 seconds

console(config)#sflow 1 polling ethernet 1/g1-1/g10 200

Example #3: Configure sFlow on an Ethernet interface with a polling interval of 400 seconds

console(config-if-1/g15)#sflow 1 polling 400

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