Configuring sFlow on 5300 switches

[lehmanp]

How do you turn on and configure sFlow on the 5300 series Procurve switch? The documentation says that they support sFlow but that it is NOT documented?

Thank You.

[netvis]

The 5300 series switches don't have explicit CLI commands to configure sFlow. The switches support configuration of sFlow using SNMP and sFlow analysis software that supports the sFlow MIB should be able to automatically discover and configure sFlow monitoring in the ProCurve switches:

http://blog.sflow.com/2009/06/sflow-mib.html

There is also a command line sflowenable script that you can run on Linux systems that will configure sFlow using SNMP:

http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowVersion5.php

Finally, you can use setmib commands on the ProCurve CLI, but I wouldn't recomment that approach - it's complex and error prone.