Modifying Port Priority (Qos); Assigning A Mirror Port And Monitor Ports - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Modifying port priority (QoS)

Enter commands such as the following on the primary port of a trunk.
BigIron RX(config)# interface ethernet 2
BigIron RX(config-if-e100-2)#link-error-disable 10 3 10
Re-enabling a port disabled by port flap dampening
A port disabled by port flap dampening is automatically re-enabled once the wait period expires;
however, if the wait period is set to zero (0) seconds, you must re-enable the port by entering the
following command on the disabled port.
BigIron RX(config)# interface ethernet 2
BigIron RX(config-if-e100-2)# no link-error-disable 10 3 10

Modifying port priority (QoS)

You can give preference to the inbound traffic on specific ports by changing the Quality of Service
(QoS) level on those ports. For information and procedures, refer to
Quality of

Assigning a mirror port and monitor ports

You can monitor traffic on Brocade ports by configuring another port to "mirror" the traffic on the
ports you want to monitor. By attaching a protocol analyzer to the mirror port, you can observe the
traffic on the monitored ports.
Monitoring traffic on a port is a two-step process:
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You can monitor input traffic, output traffic, or both.
On a 4 X 10G module, any port can operate as a mirror port and you can configure more than one
mirror port. You can configure up to 64 mirror ports. You can configure the mirror ports on
different modules and you can configure more than one mirror port on the same module.
Each mirror port can have its own set of monitored ports. For example, you can configure ports 1/1
and 5/1 as mirror ports, and monitor ports 1/2 – 1/8 on port 1/1 and ports 5/2 – 5/8 on port
5/1. The mirror port and monitored ports also can be on different slots.
However, on a 24 X 1G module, you can configure only one mirror port per packet processor
(PPCR). For example, if you configure port 3/1 to be mirrored by port 5/1, all other ports that you
want to be mirrored must use 5/1 as the mirror port. The following table shows which ports share
the same PPCR.
Port numbers
1 – 12
13 – 24
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Enable a port to act as the mirror port. This is the port to which you connect your protocol
analyzer.
Enable monitoring on the ports you want to monitor.
PPCR
1
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