About NetFlow
The NetFlow technology provides the metering base for a key set of applications, including network traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, as well as denial of services monitoring, network monitoring, outbound marketing, and data mining for both service providers and enterprise customers. Cisco provides a set of NetFlow applications to collect NetFlow export data, perform data volume reduction, perform post-processing, and provide end-user applications with easy access to NetFlow data. If you have enabled NetFlow monitoring of the traffic flowing through your datacenters, this feature enables you to perform the same level of monitoring of the traffic flowing through the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) fabric.
Instead of hardware directly exporting the records to a collector, the records are processed in the supervisor engine and are exported to standard NetFlow collectors in the required format.
For information about configuring NetFlow with virtual machine networking, see the Cisco ACI Virtualization Guide.
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NetFlow is only supported on EX switches. See the Cisco NX-OS Release Notes for Cisco Nexus 9000 Series ACI-Mode Switches document for the release that you have installed for a list of the supported EX switches. |