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Collecting Flow Records with a Template

Flow monitoring version 9, which is based upon RFC 3954, provides a way to organize flow data into templates. Version 9 also provides a way to actively monitor MPLS traffic in addition to IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. Version 9 is not supported on the AS-I PIC.

To activate templates in flow monitoring, you must configure a template and include that template in the version 9 flow monitoring configuration. Version 9 does not work in conjunction with versions 5 and 8.

To configure a version 9 template, include the template template-name statement at the [edit services flow-monitoring version9] hierarchy level. The Junos OS supports four different templates: ipv4-template, ipv6–template, mpls-template, and mpls-ipv4-template. To view the fields selected in each of these templates, see Version 9 Formats and Fields.

[edit]services flow-monitoring { version9 { # Specifies flow monitoring version 9. template mpls { # Specifies template you are configuring. template-refresh-rate {
packets 6000; # The default is 4800 packets and the range is 1–480000
# packets.
seconds 90; # The default is 60 seconds and the range is 1–600 seconds.
option--refresh-rate {
packets 3000; # The default is 4800 packets and the range is 1–480000
# packets.
seconds 30; # The default is 60 seconds and the range is 1–600. flow-active-timeout 60; # The default is 60 seconds and the range is
# 10–600.
flow-inactive-timeout 30; # The default is 60 seconds and the range 10–600. template-refresh-rate seconds 10; # The default is 60 seconds and the
# range is 10–600
option-refresh-rate seconds 10; # The default is 60 seconds and the range
# is 10–600 seconds.
mpls-template { label-positions [1 | 2 | 3]; # Specifies label position for the MPLS template. }}
}
}
}

You can export to multiple templates at a time to a maximum of eight flow servers for AS PICs and one flow server for all other PICs. To assign a template to a flow output, include the template template-name statement at the [edit forwarding options sampling output flow-server version9] hierarchy level:

[edit]forwarding-options {sampling {input {family mpls {rate 1;run-length 1;}}output {flow-server 10.60.2.1 { # The IP address and port of the flow server.port 2055;source-address 3.3.3.1;version9 { # Records are sent to the flow server using version 9 format.template { # Indicates a template will organize records.mpls; # Records are sent to the MPLS template.}}}}}}

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Published: 2010-06-30

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