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Mirroring

This chapter discusses port mirroring setup screens.

16.1 Port Mirroring Setup

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

Click Advanced Application > Mirroring in the navigation panel to display the Mirroring screen. Use this screen to select a monitor port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the monitor port.

Figure 73 Advanced Application > Mirroring

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 43 Advanced Application > Mirroring

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to activate port mirroring on the Switch. Clear this check box to disable the

 

feature.

 

 

Monitor

The monitor port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in more detail without

Port

interfering with the traffic flow on the original port(s). Type the port number of the monitor port.

 

 

Port

This field displays the port number.

 

 

 

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