Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6250, Cli Reference Manual, Page: 1373 / 2018

OmniSwitch 6250 CLI Reference Guide November 2009 page 34-1
34 Port Mirroring and
Monitoring Commands
The Port Mirroring and Port Monitoring features are primarily used as diagnostic tools.
The Port Mirroring feature allows you to have all the traffic (inbound and outbound) of an Ethernet port
sent to another port on the switch. When you enable port mirroring, the active, or “mirrored,” port trans-
mits and receives network traffic normally and the “mirroring” port receives a copy of all transmit and
receive traffic to the active port. You can connect an RMON probe or network analysis device to the
mirroring port to see an exact duplication of traffic on the mirrored port without disrupting network traffic
to and from the mirrored port.
The Port Monitoring feature allows you to examine packets to and from a specific Ethernet port.
MIB information for the Port Mirroring commands is as follows:
Filename: AlcatelIND1portMirMon.mib
Module: ALCATEL-IND1-PORT-MIRRORING-MONITORING-MIB
The following table summarizes the available commands:
Port Mirroring Commands port mirroring source destination
port mirroring
show port mirroring status
Port Monitoring Commands port monitoring source
port monitoring
show port monitoring status
show port monitoring file