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Mirroring

This chapter discusses port mirroring.

10.1 Port Mirroring Settings

Port mirroring allows you to copy traffic flow to a monitor port (the port you copy the traffic to) in order that you can examine the traffic from the mirrored port without interference.

Click Mirror in the navigation panel to display the Mirror Setting screen. Use this screen to select a monitor port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the monitor port.

Figure 35 Mirror Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 16 Mirror Setting

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Mode

Select Enabled to turn on port mirroring or select Disabled to turn it off.

 

 

Ingress

Select the ports for which you want to monitor the ingress (incoming) traffic.

Mirror

 

 

 

Egress

Select the ports for which you want to monitor the egress (outgoing) traffic.

Mirror

 

 

 

Mirror To

The Mirror To (monitor) port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in

 

more detail without interfering with the traffic flow on the original port(s). Select the

 

monitor port.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the switch.

 

 

 

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