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How do I activate sFlow on a HP ProCurve 28xx / 53xx series switch?

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I need help activating sFlow on a HP ProCurve 2800 or 5300 series switch.

activate configuration hp prtg sflow switch xflow

Created on Mar 9, 2010 2:38:52 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]

Last change on Mar 9, 2010 2:41:21 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Activating sFlow on HP ProCurve 28xx

Please see http://www.plixer.com/blog/general/how-do-i-enable-sflow-on-my-hp-procurve-2800-series-switch/ for detailed instructions.

For instructions in German, please see http://hilfedatenbank.de/2009/09/08/sflow-aktivieren/

Created on Mar 9, 2010 2:40:35 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]

Last change on Sep 10, 2013 1:57:01 PM by Gerald Schoch [Paessler Support]



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Any chance of building this functionality into PRTG based on uptime? I.e. If a switch reboots, a PRTG probe reads the uptime and correspondingly sends an SNMP set to enable sFlow again. This also applies to the 2610 series as well I believe.

Created on Mar 19, 2010 12:42:37 PM



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Dear Adria,

it should be possible to do this yourself already:

  • read the uptime from the switch using a SNMP Uptime sensor
  • configure a Threshold Trigger on the System Uptime, so that if the uptime is below 300s (for example) a Notification will be triggered
  • use a batch-script for this notification which will send the SNMP Set to the switch to enable sflow again.

Best Regards.

Created on Mar 19, 2010 1:59:58 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Hi,

When i try with: setmib sFlowRcvrOwner.1 D scrut sFlowRcvrTimeout.1 i 100000000

It said that: -D invalid value.

My switch is Hp ProCurve 5406zl. This is the first time i enable Sflow so i don't know what to do?

Please help me configure this

thanks and best regards, phu

Created on Jul 5, 2011 3:08:12 AM



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please take a look at

http://www.plixer.com/blog/general/how-do-i-enable-sflow-on-my-hp-procurve-2800-series-switch/

and the pdf in this zip file

http://www.plixer.com/files/hp-sflow.zip

Created on Jul 8, 2011 8:54:56 AM by Aurelio Lombardi [Paessler Support]



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Tidusbmt "When i try with: setmib sFlowRcvrOwner.1 D scrut sFlowRcvrTimeout.1 i 100000000

It said that: -D invalid value."

If you look that string, you can see that "-" sign is missing from front of D. I noticed the same error and seems that when you copy the string, it doesn't copy the whole line completely.

Could this sflow configuration be implemented into PRTG? I mean, why the PRTG doesn't do everything for us? :)

Created on Jan 4, 2012 1:08:11 PM




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