Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide, 12.2(31)SGA

Configuring NetFlow

This chapter describes how to configure NetFlow Statistics on the Catalyst 4500 series switches. It also provides guidelines, procedures, and configuration examples.

Note To use the NetFlow feature, you must have the Supervisor Engine V-10GE (the functionality is embedded in the supervisor engine), or the NetFlow Services Card (WS-F4531) and either a Supervisor Engine IV or a Supervisor Engine V.

Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, refer to the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at this location:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios124/124cr/index.htm.

Note Refer to the NetFlow Solutions Guide for more detailed information on NetFlow usage and management at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps1964/products_implementation_design_guide09186a00800d6a11.html

The following topics are included:

•Overview of NetFlow Statistics Collection

•NetFlow support has hardware limitations that restrict the platform support to a subset of all NetFlow fields. Specifically, TCP Flags and the ToS byte (DSCP) are not supported.

•Configuring NetFlow Statistics Collection

•NetFlow Statistics Collection Configuration Example

•NetFlow Configuration Examples

Overview of NetFlow Statistics Collection

A network flow is defined as a unidirectional stream of packets between a given source and destination —both defined by a network-layer IP address and transport-layer port number. Specifically, a flow is identified as the combination of the following fields: source IP address, destination IP address, source port number, destination port number, protocol type, type of service, and input interface.

NetFlow Statistics is a global traffic monitoring feature that allows flow-level monitoring of all IPv4-routed traffic through the switch using NetFlow Data Export (NDE). Collected statistics can be exported to an external device (NetFlow Collector/Analyzer) for further processing. Network planners can selectively enable NetFlow Statistics (and NDE) on a per-device basis to gain traffic performance, control, or accounting benefits in specific network locations.

NetFlow exports flow information in UDP datagrams in one of two formats. The version 1 format was the initial released version, and version 5 is a later enhancement to add Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) autonomous system (AS) information and flow sequence numbers. In version 1 and version 5 format, the datagram consists of a header and one or more flow records. The first field of the header contains the version number of the export datagram.

This section contains the following subsections:

•Information Derived from Hardware

•Information Derived from Software

•Assigning the Input and Output Interface and AS Numbers

•Feature Interaction of Netflow Statistics with UBRL and Microflow Policing

•VLAN Statistics

NDE Versions

The Catalyst 4500 series switch supports NDE versions 1 and 5 for the captured statistics. NetFlow aggregation requires NDE version 8.

Depending on the current flow mask, some fields in the flow records might not have values. Unsupported fields contain a zero (0).

The following tables describe the supported fields for NDE version 5:

•Table 44-1—Version 5 header format

•Table 44-2—Version 5 flow record format

Information Derived from Hardware

Information available in a typical NetFlow record from hardware includes the following:

•the packet and byte counts

•start and end timestamps

•source and destination IP addresses

•IP protocol

•source and destination port numbers

Information Derived from Software

Information available in a typical NetFlow record from software includes the following:

•Input and output identifiers

•Routing information, including next-hop address, origin and peer AS, source and destination prefix mask

Assigning the Input and Output Interface and AS Numbers

The following topics are discussed:

•Assigning the Inferred Fields

•Assigning the Output Interface and Output Related Inferred Fields

•Assigning the Input Interface and Input Related Inferred Fields

Assigning the Inferred Fields

The Catalyst 4500 series switch collects netflow flows in hardware. The hardware collects a sub-set of all the netflow flow fields. The rest of the fields are then filled in by the software when the software examines the routing state.

The Netflow Services Card does not provide enough information to accurately and consistently determine the input interface, output interface and other routing information associated with NetFlow Flows. The Catalyst 4500 series switch has a software mechanism to compensate for this. The mechanism is described in the next paragraph.

Assigning the Output Interface and Output Related Inferred Fields

Software determines the output interface information by looking up the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) entry in the default FIB table (based on the destination IP address). From this FIB entry, the software gains access to the destination AS number for this destination IP address, as well as the appropriate adjacency that stores the interface information. Therefore, the output interface is based solely on the destination IP address. If load balancing is enabled on the switch, the load balancing hash, instead of looking at the adjacency in the FIB entry, is applied to access the appropriate FIB path and access the appropriate adjacency. Although this process typically yields correct results, an inaccuracy can occur when using a PBR that shares IP addresses with the default FIB table. Under these circumstances, there would then be multiple FIB table entries and associated adjacencies for the same destination IP address.

Assigning the Input Interface and Input Related Inferred Fields

Similarly, the input interface and the source AS number for the source IP address are determined by looking up the FIB entry in the default FIB table based on the source IP address. Therefore, the input interface is based solely on the source IP address and a reverse lookup is done to determine to which interface a packet with this IP destination address needs to be routed. This process assumes that the forwarding paths are symmetrical. However, if this process yields multiple input interfaces, a deterministic algorithm is applied to pick one of them the one with the lowest IP address. Although this process typically yields correct values, there are scenarios where the values are inaccurate:

•If load balancing is being applied by an upstream adjacent switch, one input interface must be chosen arbitrarily out of the multiple input interfaces available. This action is necessary because the input interface that would be used depends on the type of load balancing algorithm being deployed by the adjacent upstream switch. It is not always feasible to know the algorithm. Therefore, all flow statistics are attributed to one input interface. Software selects the interface with the lowest IP subnet number.

•In an asymmetric routing scheme in which the traffic for an IP subnet might be received on one interface and sent on another, the inferences noted previously for selecting an input interface, based on a reverse lookup, would be incorrect and cannot be verified.

•If PBR or VRF is enabled on the switch and the flow is destined to an address that resides in the PBR or VRF range or is sourced from an address that resides in the PBR or VRF range, the information is incorrect. In this case, the input and output interface most likely points to the default route (if configured) or have no value at all (NULL)

• If VRF is enabled on the switch on some interfaces and the flow comes from a VRF interface, the information is incorrect. In this case, the input and output interface most likely points to the default route (if configured) or have no value (NULL).

Note The Supervisor Engine V-10GE provides the input interface information via hardware, improving the accuracy of NetFlow information.

Feature Interaction of Netflow Statistics with UBRL and Microflow Policing

On systems with Supervisor Engine V-10GE, there is a feature interaction between Netflow Statistics and UBRL (User Based Rate Limiting). As part of correctly configuring UBRL on a given interface, the class-map must specify a flow-mask. In turn, this flow mask is used to create hardware-based netflow statistics for the flow. By default, for traditional full-flow netflow statistics, the full-flow mask is used. With UBRL, however, the masks can differ. If UBRL is configured on a given interface, the statistics are collected based on the mask configured for UBRL. Consequently, the system does not collect full-flow statistics for traffic transiting an interface configured with UBRL. For more details, refer to the "Configuring User Based Rate Limiting" section on page 30-39.

VLAN Statistics

With NetFlow support, you can report Layer 2 output VLAN statistics, as well as VLAN statistics for routed traffic in and out of a VLAN.

The following example shows the CLI output for a specific VLAN:

cat4k-sup4-2# sh vlan counters or show vlan id 22 count

* Multicast counters include broadcast packets

Vlan Id                                            :22

L2 Unicast Packets                                 :38

L2 Unicast Octets                                  :2432

L3 Input Unicast Packets                           :14344621

L3 Input Unicast Octets                            :659852566

L3 Output Unicast Packets                          :8983050

L3 Output Unicast Octets                           :413220300

L3 Output Multicast Packets                        :0

L3 Output Multicast Octets                         :0

L3 Input Multicast Packets                         :0

L3 Input Multicast Octets                          :0

L2 Multicast Packets                               :340

L2 Multicast Octets                                :21760

Note NetFlow support has hardware limitations that restrict the platform support to a subset of all NetFlow fields. Specifically, TCP Flags and the ToS byte (DSCP) are not supported.

Configuring NetFlow Statistics Collection

To configure NetFlow switching, complete the tasks in these sections:

•Checking for Required Hardware

•Enabling NetFlow Statistics Collection

•Configuring Switched/Bridged IP Flows

•Exporting NetFlow Statistics

•Managing NetFlow Statistics Collection

•Configuring an Aggregation Cache

•Configuring a NetFlow Minimum Prefix Mask for Router-Based Aggregation

•Configuring NetFlow Aging Parameters

Checking for Required Hardware

To ensure that the necessary hardware is enabled, enter the show module command, as follows:

Switch# show module all

Chassis Type : WS-C4507R

Power consumed by backplane : 40 Watts

Mod Ports Card Type                              Model              

Serial No.

---+-----+--------------------------------------+------------------+-----------

1     2  1000BaseX (GBIC) Supervisor(active)    WS-X4515           

JAB062604KB

2     2  1000BaseX (GBIC) Supervisor(standby)   WS-X4515           

JAB062408CB

6    48  10/100BaseTX (RJ45)                    WS-X4148           

JAB032305UH

M MAC addresses                    Hw  Fw           Sw               Status

--+--------------------------------+---+------------+----------------+---------

1 0001.6442.2c00 to 0001.6442.2c01 0.4 12.1(14r)EW( 12.1(20030513:00 Ok       

2 0001.6442.2c02 to 0001.6442.2c03 0.4 12.1(14r)EW( 12.1(20030513:00 Ok       

6 0050.3ed8.6780 to 0050.3ed8.67af 1.6 12.1(14r)EW( 12.1(20030513:00 Ok

Mod  Submodule               Model             Serial No.   Hw   Status

----+-----------------------+-----------------+------------+----+---------

1   Netflow Services Card   WS-F4531          JAB062209CG  0.2  Ok       

2   Netflow Services Card   WS-F4531          JAB062209AG  0.2  Ok       

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Note Enabling this feature does not impact the hardware-forwarding performance of the switch.

The effective size of the hardware flow cache table is 65,000 flows. (The hardware flow cache for the Supervisor Engine V-10GE is 85,000 flows.) If more than 85,000 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 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.

Note By design, even if the timeout settings are high, flows automatically "age out" as they approach their statistics limit.

Enabling NetFlow Statistics Collection

Note NetFlow Flow Statistics are disabled by default.

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:

Configuring Switched/Bridged IP Flows

Netflow is defined as a collection of routed IP flows created and tracked for all routed IP traffic. In switching environments, considerable IP traffic is switched within a VLAN and hence is not routed. This traffic is termed switched/bridged IP traffic; the associated flow is termed switched/bridged IP flows. NetFlow hardware is capable of creating and tracking this type of flow. The NetFlow Switched IP Flows feature enables you to create, track, and export switched IP flows (that is, it creates and tracks flows for IP traffic that is being switched and not routed).

Be aware of the following:

•Switched IP flow collection cannot be enabled in isolation on Catalyst 4500 series switches. You need to enable both routed flow and switched flow collection to start collecting switched IP flows.

•Generally, the input and output interface information are NULL. If the traffic is being switched on a VLAN that is associated with an SVI, the input and output interface information points to the same Layer 3 interface.

•Switched flows are exported according to regular export configurations; a separate export CLI does not exist.

•In the main cache, switched IP flows and routed IP flows are indistinguishable; this is due to a hardware limitation.

Note To enable switched IP flow collection on all interfaces, you need to enter both the ip flow ingress and
ip flow ingress layer2-switched commands.

Note To enable a user-based rate limiting policy on the switched IP flow traffic, you need to enter the
ip flow ingress layer2-switched command, but not the ip flow ingress command. (See "Configuring User Based Rate Limiting" on page 39.)

To configure the NetFlow cache and enable switched IP flow collection, perform this task:

This example shows how to display the contents of an IP flow cache that contains switch IP flows:

Switch# show ip cache flow

IP Flow Switching Cache, 17826816 bytes

 2 active, 262142 inactive, 2 added

 6 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures

 Active flows timeout in 30 minutes

 Inactive flows timeout in 15 seconds

IP Sub Flow Cache, 1081480 bytes

 2 active, 65534 inactive, 2 added, 2 added to flow

 0 alloc failures, 0 force free

 1 chunk, 1 chunk added

 last clearing of statistics never

Protocol         Total    Flows   Packets Bytes  Packets Active(Sec) Idle(Sec)

--------         Flows     /Sec     /Flow  /Pkt     /Sec     /Flow     /Flow

SrcIf         SrcIPaddress    DstIf         DstIPaddress    Pr SrcP DstP  Pkts

Fa1           150.1.1.1       Fa1           13.1.1.1        11 003F 003F   425K

Fa1           13.1.1.1        Fa1           150.1.1.1       11 003F 003F   425K

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Exporting NetFlow Statistics

To configure the switch to export NetFlow Statistics to a workstation when a flow expires, perform one of these tasks:

Managing NetFlow Statistics Collection

You can display and clear NetFlow Statistics, including IP flow switching cache information and flow information, such as the protocol, total flow, flows per second, and so forth. You can also use the resulting information to obtain information about your switch traffic.

To manage NetFlow switching statistics, perform one or both of following tasks:

Configuring an Aggregation Cache

Aggregation of NetFlow Statistics is typically performed by NetFlow collection tools on management workstations. By extending this support to the Catalyst 4500 series switch, you can do the following:

•Reduce the required bandwidth between the switch and workstations, because fewer NDE packets are exported.

•Reduce the number of collection workstations required.

•Provide visibility to aggregated flow statistics at the CLI.

To configure an aggregation cache, you must enter the aggregation cache configuration mode, and you must decide which type of aggregation scheme you would like to configure: autonomous system, destination prefix, protocol prefix, or source prefix aggregation cache. Once you define the aggregation scheme, define the operational parameters for that scheme. More than one aggregation cache can be configured concurrently.

To configure an aggregation cache, perform this task:

Verifying Aggregation Cache Configuration and Data Export

To verify the aggregation cache information, perform this task:

To confirm data export, perform the following task:

Configuring a NetFlow Minimum Prefix Mask for Router-Based Aggregation

The minimum prefix mask specifies the shortest subnet mask that is used for aggregating flows within one of the IP-address based aggregation caches (e.g. source-prefix, destination-prefix, prefix). In these caches, flows are aggregated based upon the IP address (source, destination, or both, respectively) and masked by the longer of the Minimum Prefix mask and the subnet mask of the route to the source/destination host of the flow (as found in the switch routing table).

Note The default value of the minimum mask is zero. The configurable range for the minimum mask is from 1 to 32. You should chose an appropriate value depending on the traffic. A higher value for the minimum mask provides more detailed network addresses, but it may also result in increased number of flows in the aggregation cache.

To configure a minimum prefix mask for the Router-Based Aggregation feature, perform the tasks described in the following sections. Each task is optional.

•Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Prefix Aggregation Scheme

•Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Destination-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

•Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Source-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

•Monitoring and Maintaining Minimum Masks for Aggregation Schemes

Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Prefix Aggregation Scheme

To configure the minimum mask of a prefix aggregation scheme, perform this task:

Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Destination-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

To configure the minimum mask of a destination-prefix aggregation scheme, perform this task:

Configuring the Minimum Mask of a Source-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

To configure the minimum mask of a source-prefix aggregation scheme, perform this task:

Monitoring and Maintaining Minimum Masks for Aggregation Schemes

To view the configured value of the minimum mask, use the following commands for each aggregation scheme, as needed:

Configuring NetFlow Aging Parameters

You can control when flows are purged from the software flow cache (and, if configured, reported through NDE) with the configuration aging parameters, Active and Inactive, of the ip flow-cache timeout command.

Active Aging specifies the period of time in which a flow should be removed from the software flow cache after the flow is created. Generally, this parameter is used to periodically notify external collection devices about active flows. This parameter operates independently of existing traffic on the flow. Active timeout settings tend to be on the order of minutes (default is 30min).

Inactive Aging specifies how long to wait before removing a flow after the last packet is seen. The Inactive parameter clears the flow cache of "stale" flows thereby preventing new flows from starving (due to lack of resources). Inactive timeout settings tend to be on the order of seconds (default is 15sec).

NetFlow Statistics Collection Configuration Example

The following example shows how to modify the configuration to enable NetFlow switching. It also shows how to export the flow statistics for further processing to UDP port 9991 on a workstation with the IP address of 40.0.0.2. In this example, existing NetFlow Statistics are cleared, thereby ensuring that the show ip cache flow command displays an accurate summary of the NetFlow switching statistics:

Switch# config t

Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.

Switch(config)# ip route-cache flow

Switch(config)# ip flow-export destination 40.0.0.2 9991

Switch(config)# ip flow-export version 5

Switch(config)# end

Switch# show ip flow export

Flow export is enabled

  Exporting flows to 40.0.0.2 (9991)

  Exporting using source IP address 40.0.0.1

  Version 5 flow records

  2 flows exported in 1 udp datagrams

  0 flows failed due to lack of export packet

  0 export packets were sent up to process level

  0 export packets were dropped due to no fib

  0 export packets were dropped due to adjacency issues

  0 export packets were dropped due to fragmentation failures

  0 export packets were dropped due to encapsulation fixup failures

Switch#

Switch# show ip cache flow

IP Flow Switching Cache, 17826816 bytes

  69 active, 262075 inactive, 15087 added

  4293455 ager polls, 0 flow alloc failures

  Active flows timeout in 30 minutes

  Inactive flows timeout in 15 seconds

IP Sub Flow Cache, 1081480 bytes

  0 active, 65536 inactive, 0 added, 0 added to flow

  0 alloc failures, 0 force free

  1 chunk, 1 chunk added

  last clearing of statistics never

Protocol         Total    Flows   Packets Bytes  Packets Active(Sec) Idle(Sec)

--------         Flows     /Sec     /Flow  /Pkt     /Sec     /Flow     /Flow

TCP-Telnet          28      0.0       167    40      0.0      20.9      11.9

TCP-other          185      0.0         2    48      0.0       6.2      15.4

UDP-DNS              4      0.0         1    61      0.0       0.0      15.5

UDP-other        13466      0.0   3396586    46  91831.3     139.3      15.9

ICMP                97      0.0         2    95      0.0       2.3      15.4

IGMP                 1      0.0         2    40      0.0       0.9      15.1

IP-other          1120      0.0  38890838    46  87453.0    1354.5      24.0

Total:           14901      0.0   5992629    46 179284.3     227.8      16.5

SrcIf         SrcIPaddress    DstIf         DstIPaddress    Pr SrcP DstP  Pkts

SrcIf         SrcIPaddress    DstIf         DstIPaddress    Pr SrcP DstP  Pkts

Gi6/2         30.20.1.18      Gi6/1         30.10.1.18      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.19      Gi6/1         30.10.1.19      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.16      Gi6/1         30.10.1.16      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.17      Gi6/1         30.10.1.17      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.20      Gi6/1         30.10.1.20      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.10      Gi6/1         30.10.1.10      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.11      Gi6/1         30.10.1.11      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.14      Gi6/1         30.10.1.14      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.15      Gi6/1         30.10.1.15      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.12      Gi6/1         30.10.1.12      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/2         30.20.1.13      Gi6/1         30.10.1.13      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi5/48        171.69.23.149   Local         172.20.64.200   06 8214 0017   759 

Gi6/1         30.10.1.12      Gi6/2         30.20.1.12      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.13      Gi6/2         30.20.1.13      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.14      Gi6/2         30.20.1.14      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.15      Gi6/2         30.20.1.15      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.10      Gi6/2         30.20.1.10      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.11      Gi6/2         30.20.1.11      11 4001 4001   539K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.20      Gi6/2         30.20.1.20      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.16      Gi6/2         30.20.1.16      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.17      Gi6/2         30.20.1.17      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.18      Gi6/2         30.20.1.18      11 4001 4001   537K

Gi6/1         30.10.1.19      Gi6/2         30.20.1.19      11 4001 4001   537K

Switch#

NetFlow Configuration Examples

This section provides the following basic configuration examples:

•Sample NetFlow Enabling Schemes

•Sample NetFlow Aggregation Configurations

•Sample NetFlow Minimum Prefix Mask Router-Based Aggregation Schemes

Sample NetFlow Enabling Schemes

Note Enabling NetFlow on a per interface basis is not supported on a Catalyst 4500 switch.

This example shows how to enable NetFlow globally:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# ip flow ingress

This example shows how to enable NetFlow with support for inferred fields:

Switch# configure terminal

Switch(config)# ip flow ingress infer-fields

Sample NetFlow Aggregation Configurations

This section provides the following aggregation cache configuration examples:

•Autonomous System Configuration

•Destination Prefix Configuration

•Prefix Configuration

•Protocol Port Configuration

•Source Prefix Configuration

Autonomous System Configuration

This example shows how to configure an autonomous system aggregation cache with an inactive timeout of 200 seconds, a cache active timeout of 45 minutes, an export destination IP address of 10.42.42.1, and a destination port of 9992:

Switch(config)# ip flow-aggregation cache as

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout inactive 200

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout active 45

Switch(config-flow-cache)# export destination 10.42.42.1 9992

Switch(config-flow-cache)# enabled

Destination Prefix Configuration

This example shows how to configure a destination prefix aggregation cache with an inactive timeout of 200 seconds, a cache active timeout of 45 minutes, an export destination IP address of 10.42.42.1, and a destination port of 9992:

Switch(config)# ip flow-aggregation cache destination-prefix

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout inactive 200

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout active 45

Switch(config-flow-cache)# export destination 10.42.42.1 9992

Switch(config-flow-cache)# enabled

Prefix Configuration

This example shows how to configure a prefix aggregation cache with an inactive timeout of 200 seconds, a cache active timeout of 45 minutes, an export destination IP address of 10.42.42.1, and a destination port of 9992:

Switch(config)# ip flow-aggregation cache prefix

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout inactive 200

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout active 45

Switch(config-flow-cache)# export destination 10.42.42.1 9992

Switch(config-flow-cache)# enabled

Protocol Port Configuration

This example shows how to configure a protocol port aggregation cache with an inactive timeout of 200 seconds, a cache active timeout of 45 minutes, an export destination IP address of 10.42.42.1, and a destination port of 9992:

Switch(config)# ip flow-aggregation cache protocol-port

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout inactive 200

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout active 45

Switch(config-flow-cache)# export destination 10.42.42.1 9992

Switch(config-flow-cache)# enabled

Source Prefix Configuration

This example shows how to configure a source prefix aggregation cache with an inactive timeout of 200 seconds, a cache active timeout of 45 minutes, an export destination IP address of 10.42.42.1, and a destination port of 9992:

Switch(config)# ip flow-aggregation cache source-prefix

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout inactive 200

Switch(config-flow-cache)# cache timeout active 45

Switch(config-flow-cache)# export destination 10.42.42.1 9992

Switch(config-flow-cache)# enabled

Sample NetFlow Minimum Prefix Mask Router-Based Aggregation Schemes

This section provides examples for the NetFlow minimum prefix mask aggregation cache configuration:

•Prefix Aggregation Scheme

•Destination-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

•Source-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

Prefix Aggregation Scheme

This is an example of a prefix aggregation cache configuration:

!

ip flow-aggregation cache prefix

mask source minimum 24

mask destination minimum 28

In this example, assume the following configuration:

ip route 118.42.20.160 255.255.255.224 110.42.13.2

ip route 122.16.93.160 255.255.255.224 111.22.21.2

Both routes have a 27-bit subnet mask in the routing table on the switch.

Flows travelling from the 118.42.20.160 subnet to the 122.16.93.160 subnet whose source IP addresses match with a mask of 27 bits and whose destination IP addresses match with a mask of 28 bits are aggregated together in the cache statistics.

Destination-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

This is an example of a destination-prefix aggregation cache configuration:

!

ip flow-aggregation cache destination-prefix

mask destination minimum 32

!

Source-Prefix Aggregation Scheme

This is an example of a source-prefix aggregation cache configuration:

ip flow-aggregation cache source-prefix

mask source minimum 30