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Source Port Restrictions

The following restrictions apply to ports specified as source ports:

• Source ports cannot be a member of a LAG.
• Source ports cannot be configured as a destination port.
• Up to eight source ports can be mirrored.

NOTE:

When a port is set to be a target port for a port-mirroring session, all normal

operations on it are suspended. This includes Spanning Tree and LACP. All currently

active protocols and services on that port are suspended.

Port Mirroring

To specify source and destination ports for port mirroring:

1 Click Switching > Ports > Port Mirroring in the tree view to display the

Port Mirroring: Summary page.
The previously-defined source ports for the selected

Destination Port are

displayed, along with the fields defined in the Add page and their status.

Status — Indicates if the port is currently being monitored (Active) or

not being monitored (notReady), because of some problem.

2 To add a port to be mirrored, click Add, and enter the fields:

Source Port — The port number from which port traffic is copied.

Type — Type of traffic (Tx or Rx or both) to be copied.

Configuring Port Mirroring Using CLI Commands

The following table summarizes the CLI commands for configuring Port

Mirroring.

Table 8-11. Port Mirroring CLI Commands

CLI Command

Description

port monitor src-

interface-id [rx|tx]

no port monitor src-

interface-id

Starts a port monitoring session. This must

be performed in Interface Configuration

mode, which is the destination interface.
Use the no form of this command to stop a

port monitoring session.

show ports monitor

Displays the port monitoring status.

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