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Change the global default counter polling interval.
CONFIGURATION mode or INTERFACE mode
sflow polling-interval interval value
interval value: in seconds.
The range is from 15 to 86400 seconds.
The default is 20 seconds.
Back-Off Mechanism
If the sampling rate for an interface is set to a very low value, the CPU can get overloaded with flow samples under high-traffic
conditions.
In such a scenario, a binary back-off mechanism gets triggered, which doubles the sampling-rate (halves the number of samples
per second) for all interfaces. The backoff mechanism continues to double the sampling-rate until the CPU condition is cleared.
This is as per sFlow version 5 draft. After the back-off changes the sample-rate, you must manually change the sampling rate to
the desired value.
As a result of back-off, the actual sampling-rate of an interface may differ from its configured sampling rate. You can view the
actual sampling-rate of the interface and the configured sample-rate by using the show sflow command.
sFlow on LAG ports
When a physical port becomes a member of a LAG, it inherits the sFlow configuration from the LAG port.
sFlow
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