Chapter 16 Mirroring

 

 

 

 

Table 39 Advanced Application > Mirroring> RMirror > Source

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Mirrored

Select this option to mirror the traffic on a port.

 

 

 

 

Direction

Specify the direction of the traffic to mirror by selecting from the drop‐down list

 

 

box. 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 begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

 

VLAN

This field displays the VLAN ID.

 

 

 

 

802.1p Priority

This field displays the 802.1p priority.

 

 

 

 

Mirror Port

This field displays the mirror-port number(s).

 

 

 

 

Ingress

This field displays the ingress direction port number(s) of mirror-

 

 

port.

 

 

 

 

Egress

This field displays the egress direction port number(s) of mirror-

 

 

port.

 

 

 

 

Both

This field displays the both direction port number(s) of mirror-

 

 

port.

 

 

 

 

Reflector Port

This field displays the reflector-port.

 

 

 

16.2.4 Destination

It will monitor port traffic from intermediate switch or source switch by RMirror VLAN. The configuration contains: RMirror VLAN, monitor-port and connected- port.

If the destination switch is other supplier switch device, it needs to support 802.1q for basis function on RMirror. If user wants to have fully support on RMirror, learning should be disabled and forwarding the control packet.

Click Advanced Application > Mirroring> RMirror > Destination on the up right of the navigation panel to display the screen shown. See the Table 40 on page 182 for more information on Destination switch.

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