Diagnostics
12.4 Port Mirroring
SCALANCE XM-400/XR-500 Command Line Interface (CLI)
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The parameters have the following meaning:
Parameter
Description
Range of values / note
session-id
Number of the session
7 parallel sessions are possible only with
port-based mirroring and their ports must
not overlap.
1 ... 7
interface
Keyword for a an interface description
-
interface-type
Type or speed of the interface
Enter a valid interface.
If you connect a BUS ANALYZER Agent XM-400 with a
SCALANCE XM-400 basic device as of firmware version
5.1, you can select up to four ports of the BUS ANALYZER
Agent XM-400 as destination ports. The BUS ANALYZER
Agent XM-400 supports port-based and VLAN-based mirror-
ing.
interface-id
Module no. and port no. of the interface
remote vlan
Keyword for a RSPAN session
With RSPAN (Remote Switched Port
Analyzer) you can forward the data traffic
of a mirroring session to the monitor port
via a VLAN. On the RSPAN VLAN, the
mirrored data traffic is not disturbed by
other data.
Frames addressed directly to the mirroring source cannot be
mirrored on the RSPAN destination port.
vlan-id
Number of the VLAN for the RSPAN
session
1 ... 4094
For information on names of addresses and interfaces, refer to the section "Interface
identifiers and addresses (Page 42)".
Note
Selecting the destination port
A port that is part of a port channel cannot be configured as the destination port for a monitor
session.
Note
VLAN and ACL mirroring
Tx mirroring is not supported with VLAN or ACL mirroring.
Result
As soon as you have configured the settings for the port to be monitored and the destination
port, the session is complete and active.
Note
If you change the settings for an existing session, all previous configurations of this session
are lost.