Dell BigIron RX Series, Configuration Manual

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Deploying a LAG
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Monitoring an individual LAG port
By default, when you monitor the primary port in a LAG group, aggregated traffic for all the ports in
the LAG is copied to the mirror port. You can configure the device to monitor individual ports in a
LAG including Ethernet, or Named ports. You can monitor the primary port or a secondary port
individually.
NOTE
You can use only one mirror port for each monitored trunk port. To monitor traffic on an individual
port in a trunk group, enter commands such as the following:
This command enables monitoring of an individual port within a LAG.
BigIron RX(config)# lag blue static
BigIron RX(config-lag-blue)# deploy
BigIron RX(config-lag-blue)# monitor ethe-port-monitored 3/1 ethernet 10/3 both
Syntax: [no] monitor ethe-port-monitored [slot/port] | named-port-monitored [name] ethernet
[slot/port] [ input | output | both ]
Use the ethe-port-monitored option with the appropriate [slot/port] variable to specify a Ethernet
port within the LAG that you want to monitor.
Use the named-port-monitored option with the appropriate [slot/port] variable to specify a named
port within the LAG that you want monitor.
The ethernet <slot/port> parameter specifies the port to which the traffic analyzer is attached.
The input | output | both parameters specify the traffic direction to be monitored.
NOTE
Mirror (analyzer) ports cannot be assigned to the 16x10G card. You can monitor traffic on 16x10
ports.
Assigning a name to a port within a LAG
You can assign a name to an individual port within a LAG using the port-name command within the
LAG configuration as shown in the following.
BigIron RX(config)# lag blue static
BigIron RX(config-lag-blue)# deploy
BigIron RX(config-lag-blue)# port-name orange ethernet 3/1
Syntax: [no] port-name <text> ethernet [slot/port]
The <text> variable specifies the port name. The name can be up to 50 characters long.
Use the ethernet option with the appropriate [slot/port] variable to apply the specified name to an
Ethernet port within the LAG.
Refer to “Allowable characters for LAG names” on page 13 for guidelines on LAG naming
conventions.
Enabling sFlow forwarding on a port within a LAG
You can enable sFlow forwarding on an individual port within a LAG using the sflow-forwarding
command within the LAG configuration as shown in the following.