Mirroring; Chapter 16 Mirroring; Port Mirroring Setup - ZyXEL Communications MES3500-24F User Manual

This chapter discusses port mirroring setup screens.

16.1 Port Mirroring Setup

Port mirroring allows you to copy a traffic flow to a monitor port (the port you copy the traffic to) in
order that you can examine the traffic from the monitor port without interference.
Click Advanced Application > Mirroring in the navigation panel to display the Mirroring screen.
Use this screen to select a monitor port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the monitor port.
Figure 68 Advanced Application > Mirroring
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 37 Advanced Application > Mirroring
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Active Select this check box to activate port mirroring on the Switch. Clear this check box to disable the
feature.
Monitor The monitor port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in more detail without
Port interfering with the traffic flow on the original port(s). Type the port number of the monitor port.
Port This field displays the port number.
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