Port Monitoring On E-Series - Dell Force10 C150 Configuration Manual

• A source port (MD) can only be monitored by one destination port (MG). The following error is
displayed if you try to assign a monitored port to more than one monitoring port.
FTOS(conf)#mon ses 1
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#$gig 0/0 destination gig 0/60 direction both
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#do show mon ses
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#mon ses 2
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-2)#source gig 0/0 destination gig 0/61 direction both
% Error: MD port is already being monitored.
• The C-Series and S-Series may only have four destination ports per port-pipe. There is no limitation on
the total number of monitoring sessions.
Table 38-1
the total number of sessions is derived by consuming a unique destination port in each session, in each
port-pipe.
Table 38-1. Maximum Number of Monitoring Sessions per System
System
C150
C300
S50V, S50N
S25P
Note: On the C-Series and S-Series, there is no limit to the number of monitoring sessions per system,
provided that there are only 4 destination ports per port-pipe. If each monitoring session has a unique
destination port, then the maximum number of session is 4 per port-pipe.

Port Monitoring on E-Series

Both the E-Series TeraScale and E-Series ExaScale support the following.
• FTOS supports one destination (MG) port per monitoring session. The same destination port (MG) can
be used in another monitoring session.
• One destination (MG) port can monitor up to 28 source (MD) ports.
• A port cannot be defined as both a source (MD) and a destination (MG) port
Message 1 Cannot define source (MD) and destination (MG) on same port
% Error: MD port is already being monitored.
814 | Port Monitoring
SessionID Source
--------- ------
1 Gi 0/0
lists the maximum number of monitoring sessions per system. For the C-Series and S-Series,
Maximum Sessions
∞
(Note)
∞
(Note)
∞
(Note)
∞
(Note)
Destination Direction
----------- ---------
Gi 0/60 both
System
E1200/E1200i (TeraScale)
E1200i (ExaScale)
E600/E600i (TeraScale)
E600i (ExaScale)
E300
Mode Type
---- ----
interface Port-based
Maximum Sessions
28
∞
14
∞
6
(Message 1).