How to enable sflow server
SFLOW (Sampled Flow):
SFlow is a sampling technology invented by InMon and has become an industry standard defined in RFC 3176. It is a Network monitoring technology that collects and analyzes traffic statistics based on packet sampling.
Tested model & firmware version:
Switch model name:
Accton-AS5712-54X
Community sonic version:
202211.2
TOPOLOGY:
Configuration commands (sonic configurations)
Note: Commands are to be executed in sudo mode.
Step1: Configure the IP address for interfaces as per topology.
Step2: Default sflow is disabled and enable the sflow in switch.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow enable
Note: sometimes get this error: Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/sflow.service is masked .
If service is masked.
root@sonic:/home/admin# systemctl unmask sflow.service
root@sonic:/home/admin# systemctl enable sflow.service
root@sonic:/home/admin# systemctl start sflow.service
Step3: Check the default sflow and interfaces information.
Note:
By default, sflow is enabled on all interfaces at the interface level.
The default Polling Interval is 20.
The default sample rate based on interface speed.
1-in-1000 for a 1G link
1-in-10,000 for a 10G link
1-in-40,000 for a 40G link
1-in-50,000 for a 50G link
1-in-100,000 for a 100G link
1-in-400,000 for a 400G link
The default UDP port is 6343.
root@sonic:/home/admin# show sflow
sFlow Global Information:
sFlow Admin State: up
sFlow Polling Interval: default
sFlow AgentID: default
0 Collectors configured:
root@sonic:/home/admin# show sflow interface
sFlow interface configurations
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Interface | Admin State | Sampling Rate |
+=============+===============+=================+
| Ethernet0 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet1 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet2 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet3 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet4 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet5 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet6 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet7 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet8 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet9 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet10 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet11 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet12 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet13 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet14 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet15 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet16 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet17 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet18 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet19 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet20 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet21 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet22 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet23 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet24 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet25 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet26 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet27 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet28 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet29 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet30 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet31 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet32 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet33 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet34 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet35 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet36 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet37 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet38 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet39 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet40 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet41 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet42 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet43 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet44 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet45 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet46 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet47 | up | 10000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet48 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet52 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet56 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet60 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet64 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet68 | up | 100000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
Step4: Add the Sflow collector.
Note: A maximum of 2 collectors is allowed.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow collector add Test1 10.1.1.2
Step5: Configure the Sflow for interfaces.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow interface disable all
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow interface enable Ethernet4
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow interface enable Ethernet6
Step6: Add the Agent id for sflow.
Note: Only a single agent-id is allowed. If agent-id is not specified (with this CLI), an appropriate IP that belongs to the switch is used as the agent-id based on some simple heuristics.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow agent-id Ethernet48
Step6: Configure the polling interval for sflow range to be 0 to 300 seconds.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow polling-interval 50
Step7: Configure the sflow sampling-rate.
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow interface sample-rate Ethernet4 1000
root@sonic:/home/admin# config sflow interface sample-rate Ethernet6 2000
Step8: Check the sflow and interface information in sonic.
root@sonic:/home/admin# show sflow
sFlow Global Information:
sFlow Admin State: up
sFlow Polling Interval: 50
sFlow AgentID: Ethernet48
1 Collectors configured:
Name: Test1 IP addr: 10.1.1.2 UDP port: 6343 VRF: default
root@sonic:/home/admin# show sflow interface
sFlow interface configurations
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Interface | Admin State | Sampling Rate |
+=============+===============+=================+
| Ethernet4 | up | 1000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
| Ethernet6 | up | 2000 |
+-------------+---------------+-----------------+
Step9: Send the Packets in TGEN (Traffic Generator) to switch and capture packets in sflow collector port.
root@sonic:/home/admin# tcpdump -nei Ethernet48
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode
listening on Ethernet48, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes
10:52:08.988470 14:44:8f:bc:a2:c8 > 14:44:8f:bc:a3:c8, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 1330: 10.1.1.1.53611 > 10.1.1.2.6343: sFlowv5, IPv4 agent 10.1.1.1, agent-id 100000, length 1288
Step10: Run the sflow docker and check the sflow packets in server.
docker run -p 6343:6343/udp sflow/sflowtool
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