MX Series Virtual Chassis support for inline flow monitoring

You can configure inline flow monitoring for an MX Series Virtual Chassis. Inline flow monitoring enables you to actively monitor the flow of traffic by means of a router participating in the network.

Inline flow monitoring for an MX Series Virtual Chassis provides the following support:

• Active sampling and exporting of both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows
• Sampling traffic flows in both the ingress and egress directions
• Configuration of flow collection on either IPv4 or IPv6 devices
• Use of the IPFIX flow collection template or traffic sampling (both IPv4 and IPv6 export records)