Brocade Flow Vision Administrators Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) - Manual (Page 17)

FIGURE 1 Frame and port parameters
Flow definitions
To define a flow and configure Flow Vision to monitor that flow, you must provide a unique flow name
and specify the flow parameters. These parameters identify the sets of related frames that compose the
flow; these can either be explicitly defined or Flow Vision can learn them through observation.
NOTE
These flow definitions are stored on the switch on which the flow is created, and are not distributed
across the fabric. This means that each switch (logical or physical) knows only its own unique flows and
does not know what flows exist on other switches.
When creating or viewing a flow, you can specify any combination of the three features (monitor, mirror,
generator) in the flow command.
Flow definition parameters and rules
The rules listed in the following table identify the parameters that can be used to define a flow.
Flow definition rules TABLE 3
Parameters Field names Rules
Port ingrport
egrport
• One field only must be specified
• Values must be explicit
Flow definitions
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