Administrator Guide

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Port Monitoring
Port monitoring is supported on the MXL switch platform.
Mirroring is used for monitoring Ingress or Egress or both Ingress and Egress trac on a specic port(s). This mirrored trac can be
sent to a port where a network snier can connect and monitor the trac.
Dell Networking OS supports the following mirroring techniques:
• Port-Mirroring — Port Monitoring is a method of monitoring network trac that forwards a copy of each incoming and outgoing
packet from one port of a network router to another port where the packet can be studied.
• Remote Port Monitoring (RPM) — Remote Port Monitoring allows the user to monitor trac running across a remote device in
the same network. Here the mirror trac is carried over the L2 network, so that probe devices in the network can analyze it. It is
an extension to the normal Port Monitoring feature. This feature is generally referred as RPM, where mirror trac is carried over
L2 network.
• Encapsulated Remote-Port Monitoring (ERPM) — ERPM is a feature to encapsulate mirrored packet using GRE with IP delivery
so that it can be sent across a routed network.
Important Points to Remember
• Port Monitoring is supported on both physical and logical interfaces like virtual area network (VLAN) and port-channel.
• The monitored (the source, [MD]) and monitoring ports (the destination, [MG]) must be on the same switch.
• In general, a monitoring port should have no ip address and no shutdown as the only conguration; Dell Networking OS permits a
limited set of commands for monitoring ports. You can display these commands using the ? command. A monitoring port also
may not be a member of a VLAN.
• There may only be one destination port (MG) in a monitoring session.
• Source port (MD) can be monitored by more than one destination port (MG).
• Destination port (MG) can be a physical interface or port-channel interface.
• A Port monitoring session can have multiple source statements.
• Range command is supported in the source statement, where we can specify a range of interfaces of (Physical, Port Channel or
VLAN) types.
• One Destination Port (MG) can be used in multiple sessions.
• There can be a maximum of 128 source ports in a Port Monitoring session.
• Flow based monitoring is supported for all type of source interfaces.
• Source port (MD) can be a VLAN, where the VLAN trac received on that port pipe where its members are present is
monitored
• Single MD can be monitored on max. of 4 MG ports. If you try to assign a monitored port to more than one monitoring port, the
following message displays:
Dell (conf-mon-sess-2)#do show monitor session
SessID Source Destination Dir Mode Source IP Dest IP
------ ------ ----------- --- ---- --------- --------
1 Te 0/0 Te 0/1 both Port N/A N/A
2 Te 0/0 Te 0/2 both Port N/A N/A
Dell (conf-mon-sess-2)#do show running-config monitor session
!
monitor session 1
source TenGigabitEthernet 0/0 destination TenGigabitEthernet 0/1 direction both
!
monitor session 2
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