Chapter 1

Overview

 

 

Port Mirroring

The P130 has a built-in ”mirroring” capability, that allows forwarding of all the traffic to/from specific ”copy source” to a ”copy destination” (also called a probe- port or sniffer-port), excluding errors and frames with errors.

When you require detailed information about the traffic at a particular port, rather than attaching an expensive analyzer to each port (or moving such a probe from port to port), the network administrator may attach an external probe to any P130 port defined as a destination port and analyze any switched port by mirroring its Rx/Tx or Tx only traffic to that destination port.

Note: Port Mirroring must be configured individually for each P130 switch.

Switch Configuration File

The Configuration File feature allows the user to read the P130 configuration parameters and save them to a file on the station. The switch configuration commands in the file are in CLI format. The user can edit the file (if required) and re-configure the P130 by downloading the configuration file. Although the file can be edited, it is recommended to keep changes to the file to a minimum. TVisability™ MultiService Network Manager Software Update Manager (CajunView™ UpdateMaster)

and/or the CLI.

Software Download

Safe S/W download procedure – backup code always present.

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