Hosts
Controls how hosts are metered. You need to tweak this only when working with very high speed networks and you want maximum throughput per core at the expense of some metrics.
File Location
/usr/local/etc/trisul-probe/domain0/probe0/context0/PI-01010101-125E-48D0-8AC9-A7E3AD2F60FD.xml
<TrisulPluginConfiguration>
<Policy>
<description>Controls host counting HOST</description>
<SampleRate>1</SampleRate>
<ExtraCountersSampleRate>1</ExtraCountersSampleRate>
<ExternalIPOnly>false</ExternalIPOnly>
<ShortUpdates>false</ShortUpdates>
</Policy>
</TrisulPluginConfiguration>
Policy
| Parameters | Defaults | Description |
|---|---|---|
| description | ||
| SampleRate | 1 | packet sampling rate. Default, every packet. |
| ExtraCountersSampleRate | 1 | Sampling rate for the extra Aggregates counters (broadcast, multicast and unicast totals). 1 counts every packet. N counts 1 packet in N and scales the result up. |
| ExternalIPOnly | false | only meter external IPs. IPs that are not in your HOME_NETWORK |
| ShortUpdates | false | limited host updates - do not measure TotalBandwidth, IntoHomeNetwork, OutofHomeNetwork. |