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Configuring Flow Collector Destinations

Flow collection destinations are where the compressed ASCII data files are sent after the cflowd records are collected and processed. To specify the destination FTP server, include the destinations statement at the [edit services flow-collector] hierarchy level. You can specify up to two FTP server destinations and include the password for each configured server. If two FTP servers are configured, the first server in the configuration is the primary server and the second is a backup server.

To configure a destination for flow collection files, include the destinations statement at the [edit services flow-collector] hierarchy level:



[edit services flow-collector]

destinations {



ftp:url {

password "password";
}


}

To specify the destination FTP server, include the ftp:url statement. The value url is the FTP server address for the primary flow collection destination and can include macros.

When you include macros in the ftp:url statement, a directory can be created only for a single level. For example, the path ftp://10.2.2.2/%m/%Y expands to ftp://10.2.2.2/01/2005, and the software attempts to create the directory 01/2005 on the destination FTP server. If the 01/ directory already exists on the destination FTP server, the software creates the /2005/ directory one level down. If the 01/ directory does not exist on the destination FTP server, the software cannot create the /2005/ directory, and the FTP server destination will fail. For more information about macros, see ftp.

To specify the FTP server password, include the password “password” statement. The password must be enclosed in quotation marks. You can specify up to two destination FTP servers. The first destination specified is considered the primary destination.

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