Deployment Guide

410 Fabric OS Command Reference
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• You can use WWN or Fibre Channel ID (FCID) for the -srcdev and -dstdev
operands when creating Flow Monitor on EX_Ports. If the Flow Monitor
feature is configured on the ingress port using FCID addressing mode, you
must specify the real SID of the source device and the proxy ID of the
destination device. If the Flow Monitor feature is configured on the egress
port using FCID addressing mode, you must specify the proxy ID of the
source device and real DID of the destination device.
• Inter Fabric Link (IFL) flows can be monitored only on EX_Ports in a Fibre
Channel router (FCR).
• You can activate the Flow Monitor feature for a maximum of 64 flows per port.
• Access Gateway (AG) mode is supported
generator
Activates the Flow Generator feature for a flow. The Flow Generator is a traffic
flow diagnostics feature that generates traffic at line rate in the fabric to validate
connectivity, hardware components, and network performance. You must
configure the ingress or egress ports and the source and destination devices to be
SIM ports before activating a flow using the Flow Generator feature.
You can modify the frame size and payload pattern using the --control options
after creating the flow.
The following configuration considerations apply for the Flow Monitor feature:
• The Flow Generator feature is not supported on a base switch or ICL port.
• AG mode is not supported.
• You can activate the Flow Generator feature on four flows per port.
• The -frametype, -lun, and -bidir options are not supported with the Flow
Generator feature.
mirror
Activates the Flow Mirror feature for a flow. The Flow Mirror captures network
traffic in a flow and sends it to the switch CPU for traffic analysis. This feature
mirrors only the flows that are in active state. The logging mechanism of the
frames can be modified by using the --control -enable_wrap | -disable_wrap
options.
For both switch-based system and a chassis-based system, a maximum of 256
frames per second are mirrored. A maximum of 1280 frames are stored for
switch-based systems and 5120 frames are stored for chassis-based systems.
The following configuration considerations apply for the Flow Mirror feature:
• The ingress port or the egress port must be an F_Port, which is 8G or less, on
the local switch.
• The Flow Mirror feature is supported only on Gen 5 ports.
• EX_Ports, XISL ports, DISL ports, E_Ports, trunked E_Ports, and trunked
F_Ports are not supported.
• AG mode is not supported.
• The Flow Mirror feature can be active on only one flow per chassis.
port_options
Specifies the options to configure the ingress or egress ports.
-ingrport port
Specifies the ingress port. The port can be in either [slot/]port or D,I (Domain,
Index) format depending on the port mode configured using the -portIdMode
operand.