INSTALL.Linux

This software is distributed under the following license:
http://sflow.net/license.html

To compile and install, try this:

% make FEATURES="ALL"
% sudo make install
% sudo make schedule

Features can be specified individually:

% make FEATURES="ULOG NFLOG PCAP DOCKER KVM OVS TCP"

Edit /etc/hsflowd.conf for configuration.  The options are
described here:
http://sflow.net/host-sflow-linux-config.php

Module dependencies var from platform to platform, but
the following packages usually have to be installed before
the compilation will work:

 NFLOG:  libnfnetlink-dev(el)
 PCAP:  libpcap-dev(el)
 KVM: libvirt-dev(el) libxml2-dev(el)
 NVML: libnvidia-ml nvml.h
 XEN: libxenctrl libxenstore xenctrl.h xenstore.h

To start the daemon, run:

% sudo service hsflowd start

and check the syslog for errors.

To run in the debugger, first recompile like this:
% make clean
% make FEATURES="ALL" OPT=-g
% sudo make install

and then run with the "-dd" command line option to
prevent daemonization and increase the logging level:

% sudo gdb hsflowd
gdb> set args -dd
gdb> r

For more detailed logging,  using -ddd or -dddd.

To build an rpm, try:

% make rpm FEATURES="..."

To build a Debian package, try:

% make deb FEATURES="..."

And to use Docker to compile natively on other platforms (if required)
you can try:

% sudo ./docker_build_on <platform>

Where <platform> is a directory under ./docker_build/