Monitoring and Analyzing Switch Operation

Traffic Mirroring

ProCurve_8200(config)# show monitor 3

Network Monitoring

Session: 3 Session Name:

Policy: no policy relationship exists

Mirror Destination: A1

(Port)

Monitoring Sources Direction

------------------ ---------

MAC: 112233-445566 Source

The MAC address used to select packets in a local mirroring session is displayed in these columns.

Figure B-38. Displaying a MAC-based Mirroring Session

Displaying a Local Mirroring Session. When used to display the configu­ ration of a local session, the show monitor command displays a subset of the information displayed for a remote mirroring session. For example, Figure

39 displays a local mirroring configuration for a session configured as follows:

Session number: 1Session name: Detail

Classifier-based mirroring policy, “MirrorAdminTraffic”, is used to select inbound traffic on port B1.

Mirrored traffic is sent to exit port B3.

ProCurve_8200(config)# show monitor 1

Network Monitoring

Session: 1 Session Name: DetailPolicy: MirrorAdminTraffic

Mirror Destination:

B3

(Port)

Monitoring Sources

Direction

Port:------------------B1

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In

 

Figure B-39. Displaying the Configuration of a Local Mirroring Session
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