Administrator Guide
The ACL agent module saves monitoring details in its local database and also in the CAM region to monitor packets that match the
specied criterion. The ACL agent maintains data on the source port, the destination port, and the endpoint to which the packet must be
forwarded when a match occurs with the ACL entry.
If you congure the flow-based enable command and do not apply an ACL on the source port or the monitored port, both ow-based
monitoring and port mirroring do not function. Flow-based monitoring is supported only for ingress trac and not for egress packets.
The port mirroring application maintains a database that contains all monitoring sessions (including port monitor sessions). It has
information regarding the sessions that are enabled for ow-based monitoring and those sessions that are not enabled for ow-based
monitoring. It downloads monitoring conguration to the ACL agent whenever the ACL agent is registered with the port mirroring
application or when ow-based monitoring is enabled.
The show monitor session session-id command has been enhanced to display the Type eld in the output, which indicates
whether a particular session is enabled for ow-monitoring.
Example Output of the show Command
Dell# show monitor session 1
SessID Source Destination Dir Mode Source IP Dest IP DSCP
TTL Drop Rate Gre-Protocol FcMonitor
------ ------ ----------- --- ---- --------- -------- ----
--- ---- ---- ----------- ---------
1 Gi 1/45 Gi 1/46 tx Port 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0
0 No N/A N/A yes
Dell#
The show config command has been modied to display monitoring conguration in a particular session.
Example Output of the show Command
(conf-mon-sess-11)#show config
!
monitor session 11
flow-based enable
source GigabitEthernet 1/1 destination GigabitEthernet 1/1 direction both
The show ip | mac | ipv6 accounting commands have been enhanced to display whether monitoring is enabled for trac that
matches with the rules of the specic ACL.
Example Output of the show Command
Dell# show ip accounting access-list
!
Extended Ingress IP access list kar on GigabitEthernet 1/1
Total cam count 1
seq 5 permit ip 192.168.20.0/24 173.168.20.0/24 monitor
Dell#show ipv6 accounting access-list
!
Ingress IPv6 access list kar on GigabitEthernet 1/1
Total cam count 1
seq 5 permit ipv6 22::/24 33::/24 monitor
Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring
Flow-based monitoring is supported on the platform.
Flow-based monitoring conserves bandwidth by monitoring only specied trac instead of all trac on the interface. This feature is
particularly useful when looking for malicious trac. It is available for Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and egress trac. You can specify trac
using standard or extended access-lists.
1 Enable ow-based monitoring for a monitoring session.
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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