Enabling Acl Duplication Check; Acl Accounting; Displaying Accounting Statistics For All Acls - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

Enabling ACL duplication check

If desired, you can enable software checking for duplicate ACL entries. To do so, enter the following
command at the Global CONFIG level of the CLI.
BigIron RX(config)# acl-duplication-check-disable
Syntax: [no] acl-duplication-check-disable
This command is disabled by default.

ACL accounting

The BigIron RX monitors the number of times an ACL is used to filter incoming or outgoing traffic on
an interface.This feature is disabled by default.
To enable ACL accounting, enter a commnad such as the folllowing.
BigIron RX(config)# acl-accounting-enable
Syntax: [no] acl-accounting-enable
Use the no form of this command to disable ACL accounting.
The show access-list accounting command displays the number of "hits" or how many times ACL
filters permitted or denied packets that matched the conditions of the filters.
NOTE
ACL accounting does not tabulate nor display the number of Implicit denials by an ACL.
The counters that are displayed on the ACL accounting report are:
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The counters can be cleared when the device is rebooted, when an ACL is bound to or unbound
from an interface, or by entering a clear access-list command.

Displaying accounting statistics for all ACLs

To display a summary of the number of hits in all ACLs on a Multi-Service device, enter the following
command.
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1s – Number of hits during the last second. This counter is updated every second.
1m – Number of hits during the last minute. This counter is updated every one minute.
5m – Number of hits during the last five minutes. This counter is updated every five minutes.
ac – Accumulated total number of hits. This counter begins when an ACL is bound to an
interface and is updated every one minute. This total is updated until it is cleared.
The accumulated total is updated every minute. For example, a minute after an ACL is bound to
a port, it receives 10 hits per second and continues to receive 10 hits per second. After one
minute, the accumulated total hits is 600. After 10 minutes, there will be 6000 hits.
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