Change Netflow collector

Question

Hi,

In our environment all the interfaces enabled in netflow are using the same netflow collector which is causing resource utilization. I

I can see that the devices holding these interfaces are polled using different polling engines. Is it possible to change the collector for specific interfaces or make it same as device's polling engine?

mesverrum · Accepted Answer

The netflow collector is defined on the devices themselves so you cannot control it at all from Orion. If you need to rebalance the load then the solution that most people do is to actually log into the devices and change their configs so that a subset of them send their data to different polling engines. But the more elegant solution is to put a load balancer in front of your polling engines and then tell it to round-robin incoming flow traffic across all of your polling engines then you can figure the devices to shoot their net flow to the load balancer instead