Users Guide
EXEC mode
EXEC Privilege mode
show run monitor session
 Dell#show run monitor session
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 monitor multicast-queue 7
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Enabling Flow-Based Monitoring
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.
NOTE: Flow-based monitoring is not supported for egress trac.
1  Enable ow-based monitoring for a monitoring session.
MONITOR SESSION mode
flow-based enable
2  Dene IP access-list rules that include the keyword monitor. For port monitoring, Dell Networking OS only considers trac matching 
rules with the keyword 
monitor.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip access-list
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3  Apply the ACL to the monitored port.
INTERFACE mode
ip access-group access-list
Example of the flow-based enable Command
To view an access-list that you applied to an interface, use the show ip accounting access-list command from EXEC Privilege 
mode.
Remote Port Mirroring
While local port monitoring allows you to monitor trac from one or more source ports by directing it to a destination port on the same 
switch/router, remote port mirroring allows you to monitor Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and/or egress trac on multiple source ports on 
dierent switches and forward the mirrored trac to multiple destination ports on dierent switches.
Remote port mirroring helps network administrators monitor and analyze trac to troubleshoot network problems in a time-saving and 
ecient way.
In a remote-port mirroring session, monitored trac is tagged with a VLAN ID and switched on a user-dened, non-routable L2 VLAN. The 
VLAN is reserved in the network to carry only mirrored trac, which is forwarded on all egress ports of the VLAN. Each intermediate 
switch that participates in the transport of mirrored trac must be congured with the reserved L2 VLAN. Remote port monitoring 
supports mirroring sessions in which multiple source and destination ports are distributed across multiple switches
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