Configuration Guidelines - HP 1910 User Manual

Figure 72 Configuring the monitor port

Configuration guidelines

Follow these guidelines when you configure port mirroring:
You can configure multiple source ports but only one monitor port for a local mirroring group.
1.
To ensure normal operation of mirroring, do not enable the spanning tree feature on the monitor
2.
port.
Use a monitor port for port mirroring only. This is to make sure that the data monitoring device
3.
receives and analyzes only the mirrored traffic rather than a mix of mirrored traffic and normally
forwarded traffic.
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