sFlow Reporting
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What is sFlow ?
According to sFlow.org, sFlow®
is an industry standard technology for monitoring high speed switched
networks. It gives complete visibility into the use of networks
enabling performance optimization, accounting/billing for usage, and
defense against security threats.
It further says, sFlow is a sampling technology that meets the key
requirements for a network traffic monitoring solution:
- sFlow is an industry standard
with interoperable implementations provided by a wide range of network
equipment and software application vendors
- sFlow provides a network-wide view of
usage and active routes. It is a scalable technique for measuring
network traffic, collecting, storing, and analyzing traffic data. This
enables tens of thousands of interfaces to be monitored from a single
location
- sFlow is scalable, enabling it to
monitor links of speeds up to 10Gbps and beyond without impacting the
performance of core internet routers and switches, and without adding
significant network load
- sFlow is a low cost solution. It has
been implemented on a wide range of devices, from simple L2 workgroup
switches to high-end core routers, without requiring additional memory
and CPU
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