On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Jero Asensio <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is my first mail in this list, first CONGRATULATIONS at Open
> VSwitch team and his community, this is a great piece of software very
> important in Open Source future, thanks very much.
Thanks!
>
> Well, I have a configuration problem in Netflow, I am trying to
> configure netflow but I have some questions:
>
> I use this command to create Netflow in VSwitch:
>
> "ovs-vsctl create Netflow targets=192.168.1.150" (192.168.1.150 is my
> OSSIM server)
>
> but I can't put the port, in documentation of VSwitch database I can read:
>
> "targets: set of 1 or more strings. NetFlow targets in the form
> ip:port. The ip must be specified numerically, not as a DNS name."
>
> but if I put ip:port it´s a syntax error ("ovs-vsctl:
> 192.168.1.150:12000: unexpected ":" parsing set of 1 or more strings")
> and I only can put IP but not port.
You're actually pretty close but you need to escape the colon with a
backslash. For example:
ovs-vsctl create netflow target="192.168.1.150\:12000"
>
> The next step it´s put netflow in VSwitch, I use this:
>
> "ovs-vsctl add bridge eth0 netflow ae9f586e-d211-4ca4-a403-65a09525b8bd"
>
> And finally, I think I neeed to configure an IP address in VSwitch for
> netflow, It´s that true?? If this is necesary, how? I need create a
> data-path??
The IP address doesn't need to be configured through Open vSwitch. As
long as the system has general IP connectivity to the Netflow
collector you should be fine.
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