Users Guide

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 flow-based monitoring and those sessions that are not enabled for flow-based
monitoring. It downloads monitoring configuration to the ACL agent whenever the ACL agent is registered with the port mirroring
application or when flow-based monitoring is enabled.
The show monitor session session-id command has been enhanced to display the Type field in the output, which indicates
whether a particular session is enabled for flow-monitoring.
Example Output of the show Command
Dell(conf-mon-sess-0)#do show monitor session 0
SessID Source Destination Dir Mode Source IP Dest IP
------ ------ ----------- --- ---- --------- --------
0 Te 1/1 Te 1/2 rx Flow N/A N/A
The show config command has been modified to display monitoring configuration 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 | mac | ipv6 accounting commands have been enhanced to display whether monitoring is enabled for traffic that
matches with the rules of the specific ACL.
Example Output of the show Command
Dell# 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
Dell#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 specified traffic instead of all traffic on the interface. This feature is
particularly useful when looking for malicious traffic. It is available for Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and egress traffic. You can specify traffic
using standard or extended access-lists.
1. Enable flow-based monitoring for a monitoring session.
MONITOR SESSION mode
flow-based enable
2. Define access-list rules that include the keyword monitor. Dell Networking OS only considers port monitoring traffic that matches
rules with the keyword monitor.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip access-list
For more information, see Access Control Lists (ACLs).
3. Apply the ACL to the monitored port.
INTERFACE mode
ip access-group access-list
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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