Guidelines While Configuring sFlow

Here are some  guidelines to consider while configuring the sFlow monitoring feature:

• The sFlow monitoring  is a local scoped feature.
• The sFlow agent is a thread that runs continuously and gets the  signals of  sFlow packets, which is sent to sFlow collector.
• The default sample rate for  sFlow configuration is  4096.
• The sFlow agent ID is  usually a switch management IP  address and indicates the originator or sample frames provider.
• The sFlow monitoring feature supports only IPv4 sampling.
• The sFlow collector configuration requires a collector IP address and collector ports.
• The sFlow collector configuration can be local or fabric scoped feature.
• You can configure multiple collector configurations, however, the first or the latest available collector is selected for sending the sampled packets.