Configuring Flow Interface Properties
Use the Flow Interface dialog to view and configure the Flow Monitor properties attributed to the selected interface.
![Flow Interface](32163.png)
The Flow Interface dialog provides the options to:
- Hide the interface from Flow Monitor Home.
- Configure traffic collection options.
- Allow interface speed specification.
- Configure options for collecting translated addresses on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) devices.
To navigate to the Flow Interface Properties dialog:
- Navigate to the Flow Sources dialog ().
- In the Interfaces group, select the source to which the interface is connected, then click . The Flow Source dialog appears.
- Select the interface you want to edit, then click . The Flow Interface dialog appears.
To hide this interface from the Flow Sources dialog:
- Select to hide the selected interface from the Flow Monitor Home page and other menu options in Flow Monitor. This lets you display only those interfaces that are relevant to your bandwidth monitoring requirements.
: Although, after selecting this option the interface is not listed on the source list, Flow Monitor still collects data from the interface.
- Click to save changes.
To configure traffic retention properties for the interface:
- Select to collect data about the traffic that came to the device but was not forwarded by the device. Examples of this type of traffic are ping traffic, telnet connections, routing table updates, and other network management traffic.
- Select to collect data about the network traffic that is generated by the device. Examples of this type of traffic are any traffic generated by routing protocols.
- Click to save changes.
To configure the speed of an interface:
- Select . The In and Out fields are enabled.
In In and Out, enter the upper limit of the interface in bps (bits per second). Common interface speeds expressed in bps are:
- 1 Gbps = 1,000,000,000 bps
- 100 Mbps = 100,000,000 bps
- 10 Mbps = 10,000,000 bps
- Click to save changes.