Show Ports Monitor - Dell PowerConnect 5424 Command Line Interface Manual

• The following restrictions apply to ports configured to be destination ports:
• The port cannot be already configured as a source port.
• The port cannot be a member in a port-channel.
• An IP interface is not configured on the port.
• GVRP is not enabled on the port.
• The port is not a member in any VLAN, except for the default VLAN (will automatically be
removed from the default VLAN).
• The following restrictions apply to ports configured to be source ports:
• Port monitoring Source Ports must be simple ports, and not port-channels.
• The port cannot be already configured as a destination port.
• All the frames are transmitted as either always tagged or always untagged.
General Restrictions:
• Ports cannot be configured as a group using the interface range ethernet command.
NOTE:
The Port Mirroring target must be a member of the Ingress VLAN of all Mirroring source ports. Therefore,
Multicast and Broadcast frames in these VLANs are seen more than once. (Actually N, where N equals four).
When both transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) directions of more than one port are monitored, the
capacity may exceed the bandwidth of the target port. In this case, the division of the monitored
packets may not be equal. The user is advised to use caution in assigning port monitoring.
Example
The following example shows how traffic on port g8 (source port) is copied to port g1 (destination port).
Console(config)# interface ethernet g1
Console(config-if)# port monitor g8

show ports monitor

The show ports monitor User EXEC mode command displays the port monitoring status.
Syntax
• show ports monitor
Default Configuration
This command has no default configuration.
Command Mode
User EXEC mode.
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Port Monitor Commands