NETGEAR M7100, M4100 manual SFlow

ProSafe M4100 and M7100 Managed Switches

The sFlow agent uses two forms of sampling: statistical packet-based sampling of switched or routed packet flows, and time-based sampling of counters.

PC

Interface 1/0/2

Interface 1/0/1 Interface 1/0/3

GSM73xxS

Uplink

interfacePC 1/0/24

Sflow collector

IP address: 192.168.10.2

Switch/Router

Figure 40. sFlow

CLI: Configure Statistical Packet-Based Sampling of Packet Flows with sFlow

1.Configure the sFlow receiver (sFlow collector) IP address. In this example, sFlow samples will be sent to the destination address 192.168.10.2.

(Netgear Switch) (Config)# sflow receiver 1 ip 192.168.10.2

2.Configure the sFlow receiver timeout. Here sFlow samples will be sent to this receiver for the duration of 31536000 seconds. That is approximately 1 year.

(Netgear Switch) (Config)# sflow receiver 1 owner NetMonitor timeout 31536000

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