Owners Manual
Monitoring
OpenSwitch OPX supports network monitoring features such as port mirroring and sFlow which monitor and capture network trac in the
system. It also provides tools to collect port and VLAN statistics, and port media information.
Port mirroring
Mirroring copies packets from a source port to a destination port. OpenSwitch OPX supports local and remote porting mirroring using CPS
and Dell EMC-specic commands—not standard Linux commands.
• In local port mirroring, packets are forwarded from a source port to a destination port on the same system
• In remote port mirroring, mirrored packets are forwarded using a dedicated L2 VLAN
OpenSwitch OPX supports provisioning of mirroring capabilities using the CPS API:
• Create a mirroring session
• Update a mirroring session
• Delete a mirroring session
See Application examples in the OpenSwitch OPX Developers Guide for more information on how to congure port mirroring.
Topics:
• sFlow provisioning
• Port statistics
sFlow provisioning
sFlow monitors network trac by sampling incoming and outgoing packets on physical ports. OpenSwitch OPX supports sFlow
provisioning using the CPS API:
• Enable packet sampling on a physical port
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