382 Dell PowerConnect 55xx Systems User Guide
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Flow Sampling Average Sampling Rate(1024–1073741823) 
— If x is 
entered, a flow sample will be taken for each x frames.
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Flow Sampling Receiver Index
 — Select one of the indices that was 
defined in the 
sFlow Receivers Settings
 pages.
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Flow Sampling Maximum Header Size (20–256) 
— Maximum 
number of bytes that should be copied from a sampled packet.
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Counters Sampling 
— Enable/disable counters sampling. Flow 
sampling cannot be disabled if 
Flow Sampling
 is disabled
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Counters Sampling Interval (15–86400) 
— If x is entered, this 
specifies that a counter sample will be taken for each x seconds.
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Counters Sampling Receiver Index 
— Select one of the indices that 
was defined in the 
sFlow Receivers Settings
 pages.
Configuring sFlow Interfaces Using the CLI Commands
The following table summarizes the CLI commands for configuring sFlow 
interfaces.
The following is an example of the CLI commands:
Table 9-74. sflow Interface CLI Commands
CLI Command Description
sflow flow-sampling rate 
receiver-index [max-header-size 
bytes]
no sflow flow-sampling
Enables sFlow Flow sampling and 
configure the average sampling rate 
of a specific port. 
Use the no form of this command to 
disable Flow sampling.
sflow counters-sampling interval 
receiver-index
no sflow counters-sampling
Enable sFlow counters sampling and 
to configure the maximum interval of 
a specific port. 
Use the no form of this command to 
disable sFlow Counters sampling.
console(config)# interface gi2/0/3
console(config-if)#sflow flow-sampling 1024 1