Enabling Netflow Statistics Collection - Cisco 4500M Software Manual

Chapter 40 Configuring NetFlow Statistics Collection
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Enabling this feature does not impact the hardware-forwarding performance of the switch.
Note
The effective size of the hardware flow "cache" table is 85,000 flows. (The hardware flow cache for the
Supervisor Engine V-10GE is 100,000 flows.) If more than 100,000 flows are active simultaneously,
statistics may be lost for some of the flows.
The effective size of the software flow table is 256, 000 flows. The NetFlow software manages the
consistency between the hardware and software tables, keeping the hardware table open by purging
inactive hardware flows to the software table.
User-configured timeout settings dictate when the flows are purged and exported through NDE from the
software cache. Hardware flow management ensures consistency between hardware flow purging and the
user-configured timeout settings.
Software-forwarded flows are also monitored. Moreover, statistics will overflow if any flow receives
traffic at a sustained rate exceeding 2 gigabits per second. Generally, this situation should not occur
because a port cannot transmit at a rate higher than 1 gigabit per second.
By design, even if the timeout settings are high, flows will automatically "age out" as they approach their
Note
statistics limit.

Enabling NetFlow Statistics Collection

NetFlow Flow Statistics are disabled by default.
Note
To enable NetFlow switching, first configure the switch for IP routing as described in the IP
configuration chapters in the Cisco IOS IP and IP Routing Configuration Guide. After you configure IP
routing, perform one of these tasks:
Command
Switch(config)# ip flow ingress
Switch(config)# ip flow ingress
infer-fields
OL-6696-01
Submodule
Netflow Services Card
Netflow Services Card
Model Serial No.
WS-F4531 JAB062209CG
WS-F4531 JAB062209AG
Purpose
Enables NetFlow for IP routing.
Enables NetFlow with inferred input/output
interfaces and source/destination BGP as
information.
The inter-fields option must be configured for AS
information to be determined.
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