User Guide

OmniAccess SafeGuard OS Administration Guide

Chapter 2: Accessing and Managing the System

Following is an example of the command output on a SafeGuard Controller:

(SafeGuardOS) #show monitor session 1

Session ID Admin Mode Probe Port Mirrored Port

---------- ---------- ---------- -------------

1 Enable 0/21 0/20

Following is an example of the command output on a SafeGuard Switch:

(SafeGuardOS) #show monitor session 1

Session ID Admin Mode Probe Port RSPAN VLAN Mirrored Port Type

---------- ---------- ---------- ------------ ------------- -----

1 Enable 0/9 0/1 Rx,Tx

0/2 Rx,Tx

(SafeGuardOS) #

The fields in the output represent:

Changing the Protection Mode of Ports

The device has three protection modes which have an impact on IP forwarding:

■ Pass-thru – No protection policies are employed. This mode is the default.

■ Monitor – The system monitors for policy visualization based on user-defined

policy controls, however no enforcement actions are taken.

Field Description

Session ID Id to identify the session.

Admin Mode Indicates whether the Port Mirroring feature is enabled

or disabled for the session. The possible values are

Enabled and Disabled.

Probe Port The Probe (destination) port for the session. If the probe

port is not set the field is blank.

RSPAN VLAN In Switch output only. The VLAN RSPAN.

Mirrored Port The port configured as the mirrored (source) port for the

session If no source port is configured for this session then

this field is blank.

Type Shown in Switch output only. Direction in which the

source port is configured for port mirroring. Values are tx,

for transmitted packets, or rx for received packets.