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Port Mirroring
Configuring a Port Mirroring Source
1.
From the Port Mirroring page, select the Session ID for of the port mirroring session to configure.
2.
Click
Configure Source
to display the
Source Configuration
page.
Figure 21. Configure Port Mirroring Session Source
3.
Configure the following fields:
4.
Click
Apply
to apply the changes to the system.
NOTE:
If an interface participates in some VLAN and is a LAG member, this VLAN cannot be assigned as a
source VLAN for a Monitor session. At the same time, if an interface participates in some VLAN and
this VLAN is assigned as a source VLAN for a Monitor session, the interface can be assigned as a
LAG member.
Field
Description
Type
The type of interface to use as the source:
None – The source is not configured.
VLAN – Traffic to and from a configured VLAN is mirrored. In other words, all the packets
sent and received on all the physical ports that are members of the VLAN are mirrored.
Interface – Traffic is mirrored from one or more physical ports on the device.
VLAN ID
The VLAN to use as the source. Traffic from all physical ports that are members of this VLAN
is mirrored. This field is available only when the selected Type is VLAN.
Available Source port(s)
The physical port or ports to use as the source. To select multiple ports, CTRL + click each
port. This field is available only when the selected Type is Interface.
Direction
The direction of traffic on the source port (or source ports) or VLAN that is sent to the specified
destination. A source VLAN mirrors all received and transmitted packets to the destination.
Possible values for source ports are:
Tx/Rx – Both ingress and egress traffic.
Rx – Ingress traffic only.
Tx – Egress traffic only.