[f-nsp] slightly OT question

[Wilbur Smith]

Sorry Folks,
Just now getting time to respond. 

Out telemetry solution is divided into a few different features and our manual doesn't always to the best job to explaining the overall concept. We've put together some more detailed guides for customers though. I've grabbed some of these and put them in a zip file in my dropbox account. 

You can crab it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3783334/Brocade%20Telemetry%20Solutions.zip We also have a write up on using OpenFlow to perform some of this on our Community site.  Any generation of MLX and XMR support OpenFlow 1.0 in hardware if you upgrade to IronWare 5.4 http://community.brocade.com/t5/Software-Defined/Network-Analytics-and-OpenFlow-SDN/ba-p/445

Sorry about the mix-up with sFlow on the ICX6430. It looks like we didn’t bake the feature into the ASIC to help keep the cost low. 

Wilbur


-----Original Message-----
From: Eldon Koyle [mailto:esk-puck.nether.net at esk.cs.usu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:47 PM
To: Wilbur Smith
Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] slightly OT question

On  Dec 10 18:31-0700, Wilbur Smith wrote:
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> - All of our devices can export sFLow data. While this won’t provide 
> info

We found out that the ICX6430's do _not_ support sflow.  It makes me sad.


<snip>
> - The newer method of doing this is called Telemetry. In later version 
> of code on the MLX, you can create a PBR ACL to target specific 
> traffic types or hosts. Then you enable the “telemetry” function on 
> the MLX, instead of redirecting the traffic though, the router will 
> make a second copy of any data matching the ACL and forward it to a 
> destination you choose. This
<snip>

I would be interested to see how this was set up.  That could be a really useful tool for us.  I didn't see anything in the 5.4 docs that talked about forwarding a second copy; it sounded like typical PBR with some VLAN matching added (but that could be a deficiency in the docs).


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