toring, the Switch takes all the traffic going in and
out of the monitor port and copies it to the analysis
port.
CAUTION: The analysis port (Mirror From) should
have a higher bandwidth than the monitor port (Mir-
ror From). Otherwise, the Switch may not be able to
copy all traffic effectively during periods of high traf-
fic.
To set up traffic monitoring for a port:
Attach a network analyzer to a port.
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Access the Web interface, and then click Traffic Mon-
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itoring on the menu.
On the Port Mirroring screen, select the Enable check
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box.
Figure 24 Traffic Monitoring Screen
In Mirror From, click the port number that you want
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to monitor.
Only one port can be selected from the Mirror Form
row, which means that you can only monitor one port
at any given time.
In Mirror To, click the port number to which the port
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analyzer is connected. Traffic to and from the port
selected in Mirror From will be forwarded to this port.
Click Apply.
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For information on how to interpret the output on
the port analyzer, refer to its accompanying docu-
mentation.
Setting the Traffic Priority
You can configure traffic prioritization for devices and
view a list of detected IP phones on the Traffic Prioriti-
zation screen. To access this screen, click Traffic Prior-
itization on the menu.
Figure 25 Traffic Prioritization Screen
The Traffic Prioritization screen has two sections:
IP Phone Prioritization
■
List of Detected Phones
■
Setting the Traffic Priority
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