Users Guide
threshold-in msgs 
count
(OPTIONAL) Enter the threshold-in-msgs keyword followed by a value to indicate 
the maximum number of ACL logs that can be generated, exceeding which the generation 
of ACL logs is terminated. with the seq, permit, or deny commands. You can enter a 
threshold in the range of 1-100.
interval minutes (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword interval followed by the time period in minutes at 
which ACL logs must be generated. You can enter an interval in the range of 1-10 minutes.
monitor (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword monitor when the rule is describing the trac that you 
want to monitor and the ACL in which you are creating the rule is applied to the 
monitored interface.
Defaults
By default, 10 ACL logs are generated if you do not specify the threshold explicitly.
The default frequency at which ACL logs are generated is 5 minutes. By default, ow-based monitoring is not 
enabled.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION-EXTENDED-ACCESS-LIST
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell Networking 
OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.4(0.0) Added support for ow-based monitoring on the S4810, S4820T, S6000, Z9000, and 
MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module platforms.
9.3.0.0 Added support for logging of ACLs on the S4810, S4820T, Z9000, and MXL 10/40GbE 
Switch IO Module platforms.
Usage Information
When the congured maximum threshold is exceeded, generation of logs is stopped. When the interval at which 
ACL logs are congured to be recorded expires, the subsequent, fresh interval timer is started and the packet 
count for that new interval commences from zero. If ACL logging was stopped previously because the congured 
threshold is exceeded, it is reenabled for this new interval.
If ACL logging is stopped because the congured threshold is exceeded, it is reenabled after the logging interval 
period elapses. ACL logging is supported for standard and extended IPv4 ACLs, standard and extended IPv6 ACLs, 
and standard and extended MAC ACLs. You can congure ACL logging only on ACLs that are applied to ingress 
interfaces; you cannot enable logging for ACLs that are associated with egress interfaces.
You can activate ow-based monitoring for a monitoring session by entering the ow-based enable command in 
the Monitor Session mode. When you enable this capability, trac with particular ows that are traversing through 
the ingress and egress interfaces are examined and, appropriate ACLs can be applied in both the ingress and 
egress direction. Flow-based monitoring conserves bandwidth by monitoring only specied trac instead 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 and egress trac. You may specify trac using standard or extended access-lists. This mechanism 
copies all incoming or outgoing packets on one port and forwards (mirrors) them to another port. The source port 
is the monitored port (MD) and the destination port is the monitoring port (MG).
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