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GS-2024 User’s Guide
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13
Mirroring
This chapter discusses port mirroring setup screens.
13.1 Port Mirroring Setup
Port mirroring allows you to copy a traffic flow to a monitor port (the port you copy the traffic
to) in order that you can examine the traffic from the mirrored port without interference.
Click Advanced Application > Mirroring in the navigation panel to display the Mirroring
screen. Use this screen to select a monitor port and specify the traffic flow to be copied to the
monitor port.
Figure 50 Advanced Application > Mirroring
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 29 Advanced Application > Mirroring
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Active Select this check box to activate port mirroring on the Switch. Clear this check box to
disable the feature.
Monitor
Port
The monitor port is the port you copy the traffic to in order to examine it in more detail
without interfering with the traffic flow on the original port. Type the port number of the
monitor port.
Direction Specify the direction of the traffic to mirror by selecting from the drop-down list box.
Choices are Egress (outgoing), Ingress (incoming) and Both.
Mirrored
Port
Select the port whose traffic (in the specified direction) you want to copy to the specified
monitor port.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch loses
these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation
panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring.
Cancel Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.