Users Guide

You can activate flow-based monitoring for a monitoring session by entering the flow-based enable
command in the Monitor Session mode. When you enable this capability, traffic with particular flows
that are traversing through the ingress and egress interfaces are examined and, appropriate ACLs can
be applied in both the ingress and egress direction. Flow-based monitoring conserves bandwidth by
monitoring only specified traffic instead all traffic on the interface. This feature is particularly useful when
looking for malicious traffic. It is available for Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and egress traffic. You may
specify traffic using standard or extended access-lists. This mechanism copies all incoming or outgoing
packets on one port and forwards (mirrors) them to another port. The source port is the monitored port
(MD) and the destination port is the monitoring port (MG).
deny icmp (for Extended IPv6 ACLs)
Configure a filter to drop all or specific ICMP messages.
NOTE: Only the options that have been newly introduced in Release 9.3(0.0) and Release 9.4(0.0) are described here. For
a complete description on all of the keywords and variables that are available with this command, refer the topic of this
command discussed earlier in this guide.
Syntax
deny icmp {source address mask | any | host ipv6-address} {destination
address | any | host ipv6-address} [message-type] [count [byte]] | [log
[interval minutes] [threshold-in-msgs [count]] [monitor]
To remove this filter, you have two choices:
● Use the no seq sequence-number command syntax if you know the filter’s sequence number
● Use the no deny icmp {source address mask | any | host ipv6-address}
{destination address | any | host ipv6-address} command
Parameters
log (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword log to enable the triggering of ACL log messages.
threshold-in
msgs count
(OPTIONAL) Enter the threshold-in-msgs keyword followed by a value to
indicate the maximum number of ACL logs that can be generated, exceeding which
the generation of ACL logs is terminated. with the seq, permit, or deny commands.
You can enter a threshold in the range of 1-100.
interval minutes (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword interval followed by the time period in minutes
at which ACL logs must be generated. You can enter an interval in the range of 1-10
minutes.
monitor (OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword monitor when the rule is describing the traffic
that you want to monitor and the ACL in which you are creating the rule is applied
to the monitored interface.
Defaults
By default, 10 ACL logs are generated if you do not specify the threshold explicitly.
The default frequency at which ACL logs are generated is 5 minutes. By default, flow-based monitoring is
not enabled.
Command Modes ACCESS-LIST
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.8(2.0) Introduced on the S3100 series.
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000–ON.
9.4(0.0) Added support for flow-based monitoring on the S4810, S4820T, S6000, and
Z9000 platforms.
Access Control Lists (ACL) 293