Users Guide

Dell PowerConnect 55xx Systems User Guide 413
Port Mirroring
To specify source and destination ports for port mirroring:
1
Click Switching > Ports > Port Mirroring in the tree view to display the
Port Mirroring: Summary page.
Figure 10-8. Port Mirroring: Summary
The previously-defined source ports for the selected Destination Port are
displayed, along with the fields defined in the
Add page and their status.
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Status — Indicates if the port is currently being monitored ( Active ) or
not being monitored (
notReady ), because of some problem.
2 To add a port to be mirrored, click Add , and enter the fields:
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Source Port — The port number from which port traffic is copied.
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Ty p e — Type of traffic (Tx or Rx or both) to be copied.