Network devices

Switches, routers, firewalls and probes can send their flows to DC Netscope, on their own or in addition to the flows of your virtualization platform. See Compatibility for the protocols of the usual equipment.

Before you start

DC Netscope receives the flows on its collectors, which are set in the Configuration of its administration interface:

Before sending sFlow, set Sflow Collector workers count to 1 or more: no sFlow collector runs otherwise.

Then point the export of the device to the address of DC Netscope, on the port of the protocol, and make sure the firewalls between them let this port through.

FortiGate

FortiGate firewalls export sFlow. With DC Netscope at 192.168.1.50, and its sFlow collector on 10000, type in the command line of the FortiGate:

config system sflow
    set collector-ip 192.168.1.50
    set collector-port 10000
end

Then enable sFlow on each interface whose traffic DC Netscope should see, for example port1 here:

config system interface
    edit port1
        set sflow-sampler enable
    next
end

Checking that the flows arrive

Open the Dashboard: within a few minutes, the summary of the collect shows the traffic received from the device. Its flows show IP addresses: name the devices and the networks behind them in the External IPs view.