[host-sflow-discuss] hsflowd - packet samplling

[Adam P. <ada...@gm...>]

Hello,

i am trying to use hsflowd (version is 1.19) to monitor traffic on a linux
server.
After starting the daemon, /var/log/syslog has no errors.

hsflowd.conf:


*sflow {*

*  DNSSD = off*

*  polling = 30*


*  sampling = 40*

*  collector {*

*    ip = A.B.C.D*

*    udpport = 6343*

*  }*
*}*


Then, i started generating some traffic. My collector at IP A.B.C.D never
received flow samples, it receives however counters samples in the
intervals set in the configuration file. (I verified the above using
tcpdump)

My general goal is to sample traffic passing through a server and send them
to a collector, to substitute sampling performed by switches (i prefer
sflow).

If i have misunderstood and hsflowd is not meant to sample a host's
received/sent traffic, is there any other way that i can achieve this?


Thank you very much in advance