Managing Smart Ports
Configuring Smart Ports for Other
ESW 500 Series Switches Administration Guide
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Spanning Tree Port Fast — Indicates Fast Link is enabled on the port. If Fast
Link mode is enabled for a port, the Port State is automatically placed in the
Forwarding state when the port link is up. Fast Link optimizes the STP protocol
convergence. STP convergence can take 30-60 seconds in large networks.
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Spanning Tree BPDU Guard — Indicates if BPDU Guard is enabled on the
interface.
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QoS Policy — Indicates that the default QoS policy settings are applied to the
port. The Default policy is voice-map.
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Macro Description— Indicates the type of device connected to the port. For VS
cameras, this field is always
VS Camera.
STEP 6
Select a VLAN in the
VLAN ID
dropdown box.
STEP 7
Click Apply. The Server port settings are saved, and the device is updated.
STEP 8
Click OK. The
Smart ports Setting
page opens.
Configuring Smart Ports for Other
The
Smart Port Other Page
allows network administrators to remove any previous
Smart Ports configuration from a port.
You can also use the smart ports for other setting to analyze network traffic. You
can analyze network traffic passing through ports or by using SPAN to send a
copy of the traffic to another port on the switch or on another switch that has been
connected to a network analyzer or other monitoring or security device. The
following are the steps to set up port mirroring:
STEP 1
Select the destination port. Configure the port as Other
STEP 2
Connect the destination port to a computer with Wireshack network protocol
analyzer.
STEP 3
Go to Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> SPAN (Port Monitoring). Configure the
destination port and source port together with traffic type.
STEP 4
Monitor the source ports traffic by Wireshack.
