Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Traffic Mirroring

Displaying a Mirroring ConfigurationDisplaying the Mirroring Configuration Summary

Use the show monitor command to display information on the currently configured status, traffic-selection criteria, and number of monitored interfaces in each mirroring session on a switch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ProCurve# show monitor

 

 

 

Local Mirroring Source:

 

 

 

 

Session 1 is performing local mirroring using a

 

Network Monitoring

 

 

 

classifier-based policy for traffic-selection

 

 

 

 

criteria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sessions 2, 3, and 4 are not configured.

 

Sessions

Status

Type

Sources

Policy

 

 

 

 

--------

-----------

-----

-------

-----

 

 

1

active

port

1

yes

 

2

not defined

 

 

 

 

 

3

not defined

 

 

 

 

 

4

not defined

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure B-21. Example of a Currently Configured Mirroring Summary on a Source Switch

Syntax: show monitor

If a remote mirroring source is configured on the switch, then the following fields appear. Otherwise, the output displays this message: Mirroring is currently disabled.

Sessions: Lists the four configurable sessions on the switch.

Status: Displays the current status of each session:

active: The session is configured.

inactive: The session is partially configured. Only the destination has been configured; the mirroring source is not configured.

not defined: Mirroring is not configured for this session.

Type: Indicates whether the mirroring session is local (port) or

MAC-based (mac) for local sessions.

Sources: Indicates how many mirroring sources are using each mirroring session.

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