Administrator Guide

• On a source switch on which you configure source ports for remote port mirroring, you can add only one port to the dedicated RPM
VLAN which is used to transport mirrored traffic. You can configure multiple ports for the dedicated RPM VLAN on intermediate and
destination switches.
Displaying Remote-Port Mirroring Configurations
To display the current configuration of remote port mirroring for a specified session, enter the show config command in MONITOR
SESSION configuration mode.
Dell(conf-mon-sess-2)#show config
!
monitor session 2 type rpm
source fortyGigE 1/52 destination remote-vlan 300 direction rx
source Port-channel 10 destination remote-vlan 300 direction rx
no disable
To display the currently configured source and destination sessions for remote port mirroring on a switch, enter the show monitor session
command in EXEC Privilege mode.
Dell(conf)#do show monitor session
SessID Source Destination Dir Mode Source IP Dest IP
------ ------ ----------- --- ---- --------- --------
1 remote-vlan 100 Fo 1/49 N/A N/A N/A N/A
1 remote-vlan 100 Po 100 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2 Fo 1/50 remote-vlan 300 rx Port N/A N/A
2 Po 10 remote-vlan 300 rx Port N/A N/A
To display the current configuration of the reserved VLAN, enter the show vlan command.
Dell#show vlan
Codes: * - Default VLAN, G - GVRP VLANs, R - Remote Port Mirroring VLANs, P - Primary, C -
Community, I - Isolated
O - Openflow
Q: U - Untagged, T - Tagged
x - Dot1x untagged, X - Dot1x tagged
o - OpenFlow untagged, O - OpenFlow tagged
G - GVRP tagged, M - Vlan-stack
i - Internal untagged, I - Internal tagged, v - VLT untagged, V - VLT tagged
NUM Status Description Q Ports
* 1 Inactive
R 100 Active T Fo 1/49
R 300 Active T Fo 1/51
Configuring the Sample Remote Port Mirroring
Remote port mirroring requires a source session (monitored ports on different source switches), a reserved tagged VLAN for transporting
mirrored traffic (configured on source, intermediate, and destination switches), and a destination session (destination ports connected to
analyzers on destination switches).
Table 67. Configuration Steps for RPM
Step Command Purpose
1 configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
2
monitor session <id> type rpm The <id> needs to be unique and not already defined in the box
specifying type as 'rpm' defines a RPM session.
3 source Interface | Range
Specify the port or list of ports that needs to be monitored
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