From ff094804a171d24609910e858fc1d9970a5ac006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Viacheslav Hletenko Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:23:30 +0000 Subject: Add sFlow documentation and an example of configuraiton --- docs/configuration/system/index.rst | 1 + docs/configuration/system/sflow.rst | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/configuration/system/sflow.rst (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/configuration/system/index.rst b/docs/configuration/system/index.rst index 4df787a9..23edaa3f 100644 --- a/docs/configuration/system/index.rst +++ b/docs/configuration/system/index.rst @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ System name-server option proxy + sflow syslog sysctl task-scheduler diff --git a/docs/configuration/system/sflow.rst b/docs/configuration/system/sflow.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b131d8a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/configuration/system/sflow.rst @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.. _ntp: + +##### +sFlow +##### + +VyOS supports sFlow accounting for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. The system acts as a flow exporter, and you are free to use it with any compatible collector. + +sFlow is a technology that enables monitoring of network traffic by sending sampled packets to a collector device. + +The sFlow accounting based on hsflowd https://sflow.net/ + +Configuration +============= + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow agent-address
+ + Configure sFlow agent IPv4 or IPv6 address + + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow agent-interface + + Configure agent IP address associated with this interface. + + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow drop-monitor-limit + + Dropped packets reported on DROPMON Netlink channel by Linux kernel are exported via the standard sFlow v5 extension for reporting dropped packets + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow interface + + Configure and enable collection of flow information for the interface identified by . + + You can configure multiple interfaces which whould participate in sflow accounting. + + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow polling + + Configure schedule counter-polling in seconds (default: 30) + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow sampling-rate + + Use this command to configure the sampling rate for sFlow accounting (default: 1000) + +.. cfgcmd:: set system sflow server
port + + Configure address of sFlow collector. sFlow server at
can be both listening on an IPv4 or IPv6 address. + + +Example +======= + +.. code-block:: none + + set system sflow agent-address '192.0.2.14' + set system sflow agent-interface 'eth0' + set system sflow drop-monitor-limit '50' + set system sflow interface 'eth0' + set system sflow interface 'eth1' + set system sflow polling '30' + set system sflow sampling-rate '1000' + set system sflow server 192.0.2.1 port '6343' + set system sflow server 203.0.113.23 port '6343' -- cgit v1.2.3