Flow Monitor - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Reference Manual

flow monitor

flow monitor
To create a Flexible NetFlow flow monitor or to modify an existing Flexible NetFlow flow monitor and
enter flow monitor configuration mode, use the flow monitor command. To remove a Flexible NetFlow
flow monitor, use the no form of this command.
Syntax Description
monitor-name
Defaults Flow monitors are not present in the configuration until you create them.
Command Modes Global configuration mode
Supported User Roles
network-admin
vdc-admin
Command History Release
4.0(1)
Usage Guidelines
Flow monitors are the Flexible NetFlow component that is applied to interfaces to perform network
traffic monitoring. Flow monitors consist of a record that you add to the flow monitor after you create
the flow monitor and a cache that is automatically created at the time that the flow monitor is applied to
the first interface. Flow data is collected from the network traffic during the monitoring process based
on the key and nonkey fields in record that is configured for the flow monitor and stored in the flow
monitor cache.
Once you enter the flow monitor configuration mode, the prompt changes to the following:
switch(config-flow-monitor)#
Within the flow monitor configuration mode, the following keywords and arguments are available to
configure the flow monitor:
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flow monitor monitor-name
no flow monitor monitor-name
Name of the flow monitor that is created or modified.
Modification
This command was introduced.
description description—Provides a description for this flow monitor; you use a maximum of 63
characters.
exit—Exits from the current configuration mode.
exporter name—Specifies the name of an exporter to export records.
no—Negates a command or sets its defaults.
record {record-name | netflow ipv4 collection-type | netflow-original}—Specifies a flow record to
use as follows:
F Commands
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