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Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition
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Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

by Eric Chou
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
466 pages
10h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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SFlowtool and sFlow-RT with Python

Unfortunately, at this point, sFlow is something that our VIRL lab devices do not support (not even with the NX-OSv virtual switches). You can either use a Cisco Nexus 3000 switch or other vendor switches, such as Arista, that support sFlow. Another good option for the lab is to use an Arista vEOS virtual instance. I happen to have access to a Cisco Nexus 3048 switch running 7.0 (3), which I will be using for this section as the sFlow exporter.

The configuration of Cisco Nexus 3000 for sFlow is straightforward:

Nexus-2# sh run | i sflowfeature sflowsflow max-sampled-size 256sflow counter-poll-interval 10sflow collector-ip 192.168.199.185 vrf managementsflow agent-ip 192.168.199.148sflow data-source interface ...
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