User`s guide

AT-S45 User’s Guide
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Creating or Deleting a Port Monitor
To create or delete a port monitor, perform the following procedure:
1. From the Home page, select Advanced Config. and then select
Port Monitoring from the sub-menu.
The management software displays the Port Monitoring
Configuration window in Figure 64.
Figure 64 Port Monitoring Configuration Window
2. To create a port monitor, do the following:
a. Use the pull-down menu from Monitoring Port to select the port
to function as the port monitor.
b. Use the pull-down menu from Port Being Monitored to select the
port whose traffic is to be copied to the monitor port. You can
select from 1 to 12 ports.
c. Click Apply.
d. Select the Monitoring Status pull-down menu, click Enable.
e. Click Apply.
The port monitor is immediately activated on the switch. You can
now connect a data analyzer to the monitor port to monitor the
traffic on the selected port.
3. To delete an existing port monitor, select Disable from the
Monitoring Status pull-down menu and click Apply.
The port monitor is deleted. The port that was functioning as the
monitor port can now be used for normal network operations.