The Host sFlow agent exports physical and virtual server performance metrics using the sFlow protocol. The agent provides scalable, multi-vendor, multi-OS performance monitoring with minimal impact on the systems being monitored. To start hsflowd at boot, add something like this to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hsflowd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.hsflowd start fi