Collectors

The Admin > Resources > Collectors page is used to access management functions for Plixer Scrutinizer flow collectors and Plixer ML Engine deployments.

Managing collectors

The Collectors tab lists the following details for each Plixer Scrutinizer collector currently deployed:

Rank	Number assigned to the collector as part of a distributed cluster
Collector	Collector’s IP address or hostname
Status	Collector’s current operational status
Exporter count	Number of exporters sending flows to the collector
First flow time	Timestamp of the first flow received by the collector
Last flow time	Timestamp of the most recent flow received by the collector
Flow rate	Average number of flows received per second
Packet rate	Average number of packets received per second
MFSNs	Average number of MFSNs/missed flows per second

To change the information displayed, click the Available Columns button and select the details to show. Full details can also be viewed in a tray by clicking the collector IP address or hostname.

Deleting collectors

To remove one or more collectors from the environment, select them using the checkboxes, and then use the Delete option in the Bulk Actions tray.