Smon cli commands, Port mirroring, Port mirroring overview – Avaya C360 User Manual

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Avaya C360 Layer 2 Features

144 Installation and Configuration Guide Avaya C360 Multilayer Stackable Switches, version 4.5

SMON extends both RMON I for the MAC layer, and RMON 2 for the network layer and higher.
SMON monitoring collects and displays data in real-time.

Top-down view of all traffic:

Network view for selected switches

Network view for selected ports

VLAN view

History

Tip:

Tip:

In order to use SMON, you need to install the SMON license on the C360 switch
and use Avaya IM with SMON

Note:

Note:

SMON for the network layer is not supported in this version of the C360.

SMON CLI Commands

Port Mirroring

Port Mirroring Overview

Port Mirroring copies all received and transmitted packets (including local traffic) from a source
port to a predefined destination port, in addition to the normal destination port of the packets.
Port Mirroring, also known as "sniffing" is useful in debugging network problems.

Port mirroring allows you to define a source port and a destination port, regardless of port type.
For example, a 10 Mbps and a 100 Mbps port can form a valid source/destination pair. You
cannot, however define the port mirroring source and destination ports as the same port.

You can define one source port and one destination port on each C360 stack for either received
- Rx - or transmitted and received - Tx + Rx - traffic.

In order to...

Use the following command...

Enter the SMON license

set license

Display licenses installed on the
switch

show license

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