Concept Guide
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.
You cannot apply the same ACL to an interface or a monitoring session context simultaneously.
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 displays the Type eld in the output, which indicates whether a particular
session is enabled for ow-monitoring.
Example Output of the show Command
DellEMC# show monitor session 1
SessID Source Destination Dir Mode Source IP Dest IP DSCP
TTL Drop Rate Gre-Protocol FcMonitor
------ ------ ----------- --- ---- --------- -------- ----
--- ---- ---- ----------- ---------
1 Te 1/2 remote-ip rx Port 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0
0 No N/A N/A yes
DellEMC#
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 TenGigabitEthernet 1/1 destination TenGigabitEthernet 1/1 direction both
The show ip 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
DellEMC# show ip accounting access-list
!
Extended Ingress IP access list kar on TenGigabitEthernet 1/1
Total cam count 1
seq 5 permit ip 192.168.20.0/24 173.168.20.0/24 monitor
DellEMC#show ipv6 accounting access-list
!
Ingress IPv6 access list kar on TenGigabitEthernet 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 trac. You can specify trac using
standard or extended access-lists.
1 Enable ow-based monitoring for a monitoring session.
MONITOR SESSION mode
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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