Deployment Guide

Mirroring traffic flowing to remote fabrics

Flow Vision allows you to mirror traffic that is flowing to a remote fabric.

To mirror traffic that is flowing to a remote fabric, in the flow definition you must specify the imported

port ID or real PWWN of the device in the other fabric.

The following illustration shows how such a mirroring situation might be constructed. In this illustration, if

the flow definition is made on Device A (a switch in Fabric 1), then you must use the imported port ID for

B′ to mirror to a port on device B in Fabric 2. If the flow definition is given in WWN mode, then the real

PWWN of Device B can be used instead.

FIGURE 15 Mirroring traffic flowing to a remote fabric

The following example creates shows the proxy identifications and output of such a flow.

switchP1:admin> fcrproxydevshow

Proxy WWN Proxy Device Physical State

Created PID Exists PID

in Fabric in Fabric

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

1 20:00:00:11:0d:07:00:00 02f001 2 010300 Imported

Total devices displayed: 1

switchP2:admin> fcrproxydevshow

Proxy WWN Proxy Device Physical State

Created PID Exists PID

in Fabric in Fabric

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

2 10:00:8c:7c:ff:25:9b:00 02f001 1 010000 Imported

Total devices displayed: 1

switchP2:admin> flow --create fm_edge1_edge2 -srcdev 010000 -dstdev 02f001 -feature mirror -ingrport

3/22 -mirrorport 3/43

Mirror feature(s) have been activated.

switch2:admin> flow --show

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sys_gen_all_simports|gen |* |* |* |* |no |- |- |- |- |- |

fm_edge1_edge2 |mir+ |010000 |02f001 |3/22 |- |no |- |- |- |- |3/43 |

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