Specifications

mpls export interval
MP-162
Cisco IOS Multiprotocol Label Switching Command Reference
January 2010
mpls export interval
To configure the collection and export of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Prefix/Application/Label (PAL) information to a NetFlow collector, use the mpls export interval
command in global configuration mode. To disable the collecting and exporting of the MPLS PAL
information, use the no form of this command.
mpls export interval in
terval
no mpls export interval
Syntax Description
Command Default No capture or export of PAL table entries is configured.
Command Modes Global configuration
Command History
Usage Guidelines Use this command to configure the collection and export of MPLS PAL information to a NetFlow
co
llector. The collector can be the Cisco NetFlow Collection Engine or a third-party collector
application.
The in
terval argument specifies the number of minutes between one export of the entire MPLS PAL table
and the next export of the entire table. We recommend that you select a time interval from 360 minutes
(6 hours) to 1440 minutes (24 hours) depending on the size of your network. If you want to trigger an
i
mmediate export of the PAL table, disable the functionality (no mpls export interval command) and
reconfigure the command with an interval argument greater than zero.
If you enter the command with a periodic interval of zero, entries of the MPLS PAL table are not
e
xported repeatedly, but PAL label tracking still occurs and PAL information is exported to the collector
when a label is allocated. To display the entire MPLS PAL table, use the show mpls flow mappings
command.
The in
terval argument that you specify is the least amount of time that passes before another export of
the MPLS PAL table. The system might choose to delay the MPLS PAL table export, if the PAL export
queue already contains a large number of entries. This might occur if the export queue contains tens of
thousands of entries, for example, if the export occurred at a time when thousands of routes just came
up, or if NetFlow did not have the time to clear the export queue from either a previous export of the full
table or a previous time when thousands of routes came up in a brief period.
interval Specifies the time interval in minutes between full MPLS PAL table exports.
Th
e range of valid time intervals is 0 to 10080 minutes.
Release Modification
12.2(28)SB This command was introduced.
12.2(33)SRA This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SRA.
12.2SX This command is supported in the Cisco IOS Release 12.2SX train. Support
i
n a specific 12.2SX release of this train depends on your feature set,
platform, and platform hardware.