Chapter 14 Mirroring

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 33

Mirroring

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Clear this check box to deactivate port mirroring on the switch.

 

 

Monitor

The monitor port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in more detail

Port

without interfering with the traffic flow on the original port(s). Select this port from this drop-

 

down list box.

 

 

Port

This field displays the port number.

 

 

*

Settings in this row apply to all ports.

 

Use this row only if you want to make some settings the same for all ports. Use this row

 

first to set the common settings and then make adjustments on a port-by-port basis.

 

Note: Changes in this row are copied to all the ports as soon as you make

 

them.

 

 

Mirrored

Select this option to mirror the traffic on a port.

 

 

Direction

Specify the direction of the traffic to mirror. Choices are Egress (outgoing), Ingress

 

(incoming) and Both.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the switch’s run-time memory. The switch loses these

 

changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation panel

 

to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields.

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